What is possibly even more concerning is that apparently (I am no expert) stock market rules are loosened for these giant IPOs:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364978
... which seems to endanger some people's pensions directly.
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This is absolutely delicious. The whole time companies like Microsoft have been pushing this bullshit, people who understand it have been saying the same thing: it's unsustainable both environmentally and financially.
Now Microsoft are trialling actually charging for this thing – arguably still below cost – and people are losing their shit about their tools suddenly being too expensive. Positively delicious consequences.
They fucked around with dependency on big tech and they're finally finding out. I have zero sympathy. When you rent your tools and your agency from an amoral megacorp, this is what you get.
Human effort has always been cheaper; powered by caffeine, curses, and general spite. Like, relying on slop tools like Coslop and Hallucinating Claude is just going to make you poor because by design these services are financially extractive. If nobody saw for miles away that Microslop was going to heavily enshittify their service, it's kinda sad given Microslop's history.
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