I'm at
#scte #techexpo and everyone wants to talk about AI. Today, they're talking about healthy implementations -- network monitoring to detect sick hardware in need of replacement for example -- replacing equipment before it causes customer uptime to be impacted. Today they're talking load management in ways that all seem appropriate and healthy -- and it's being pitched to mostly engineers who mostly understand exactly what they'd be buying. I can't help feeling though as though it's 1995 or maybe 2000 and the web is iterating into good places just before the inevitable slide into
#enshitification where all services will become more expensive and less reliable because people's understandings have been prioritized below automation for cost reasons. It feels inevitable. I wish it didn't.