Given how entrenched the major desktop and mobile platforms are, I've despaired in recent years of finding a future that is not just more of the same, ever growing layers of cruft, middleware, and technical debt.
But perhaps a silver lining exists in the industry's "AI" madness causing everyone to commit to utterly destroying the quality, stability, and reliability of their software and platforms:
Maybe there are some good opportunities here for folks who are interested in a fresh start.
@swetland Yeah, exactly this. Stability has its pros and cons, stability itself is often the seed of its own disruption, and that disruption tends to be accidental and unpredictable. It's something one tends to recognize only in hindsight.
Accepting that, and that it will almost certainly come from folks two or three generations younger than me routing around the BS they're inheriting from my generation, has helped steer a near-constant sense of dread toward something approaching optimism.
It's certainly helped me feel less preachy, although some might say I'm deluding myself in that regard.
Brian Swetland
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