because it's easier than paying $50k for local llm setup that might not last 5 years.

Well, yes. They know what they are doing. They know when given the option the consumer makes the affordable choice. I just don't have to like or condone their practices. Maybe instead of taking on billions of dollars of debt they should have thought about a business model that makes sense first? Maybe the collective "we" (consumers and investors, but especially investors) should keep it in our pants until the product is proven and sustainable?

It will be real interesting if the haters are right and this technology is not the breakthrough the investors assume it to be AFTER it is already sewn into everyone's work flows. Everyone keeps talking about how jobs will be displaced, yet few are asking what happens when a dependency is swept out from underneath the industry as a whole if/when this massive gamble doesn't pay off.

Whatever. I am squawking into the void as we just repeat history.

Or the companies can be transparent about their product roadmap. I can guarantee this enshittification was on the roadmap way before we knew about it. They let us operate under false information, that's just weak behavior.

The one you're not in

Who pissed in your coffee?

you're all living in the past btw.

Only laggards are using MCP.

Everyone else is using skills to provide updating knowledge and cli tools for extra functionality.

100% Everything above discussed: solved with skills.md

It's hilarious watching all of you being academic about the recent invention of the wheel and acting like you're smart.

Who here is naive enough to think that this little loop hole hasn't been nicely tied off?

Asking people / reading opinions on the internet is part of research though.

what is this vibeslop?

none of the links work

imagine paying 3k$ for a laptop that can't even handle cubic gradients?

hold my beer.

the apocolypse needs to happen sooner so we can pop this bubble.

If they live in California, they're most assuredly borrowing prestige through licenced usage of apple hardware.

Because let's get real, no one ever gets a job in tech if they're not an iPhone user right?

why in gods name would you ever pay for discord.

Freeloading? Bad word. There are plenty of free/open source alternatives like Discourse, Zulip, Matrix, so why would anybody pay for something which should be free to use and respect user privacy?