people have been saying "it's been a minute" to mean a long time since at least the 90s in NY

Yeah, I’ve been saying hot minutes for decades myself!

this is so cool :) thinking about some remixes already with maritime traffic and tides

Seems a lot like the meme of the new designers pushing a redesign to justify their existence.

To be less dismissive it seems an industry wide problem that big splashy projects get rewarded while the silent “Snow Leopard” mind numbingly obvious just up your quality and fix bugs and UX issues work goes unnoticed.

If it ain't broke, fix it.

I don’t see a single comment I would describe as celebrating this

Fun to watch, not fun to live is what i believe the parent is referring to.

“The other is to make sure you have a good insurance company” such a thing exists?

moderate corporate democrats are repeatedly getting trounced in elections and the DSA crew are starting to win so citation definitely needed

your perspective on today’s America is there is _too much_ accountability for big companies?

"The Corner" is also a great read by him.

Because the companies everyone claims are now obsolete are making a lot of money still doing the supposedly obsolete things?

No one buys CDs but Taylor Swift still makes a lot of money from her music. Doesn't negate that making music is economically worse than ever.

Most people book flights online, travel agents still make a lot of money. Doesn't negate that travel agency as a business is economically worse than ever.

Most people have cameras in their pockets that can take good photos, photographers still make a lot of money. Doesn't negate that being a photographer is economically worse than ever.

Hopefully, you see the pattern. You don't remember that companies that are no longer around.

Many of those companies like duolingo have already collapsed in stock price with YoY growth dropping off a cliff. It is happening, it just isn't instant.

And yet those companies aren't collapsing because it became easier to rewrite their software, but because llms themselves have replaced a core part of their business (such as translation or simple art).

Seems like so far the market is not convinced at all that SaaS companies as a whole are any more disruptable than before.

That and talking to a lot of users, Duolingo reduced the quality of their service moving to LLM generated content -- a lot of people moved to other apps.