i'm sick of hearing 'for nerds' as a disparaging remark about the lack of business appeal.
the line I mention is talking about the success of Slack relative to IRC ; well, guess what -- before slack plenty of companies ran their discourse through IRC for little to no cost; the fact that Slack raised xx-Billions of dollars is only evidence of their business ability, not that they somehow 'solved irc'.
Someone re-created an IRC clone, polished it, and then schmoozed businesses into buying a service that was essentially previously free.
Don't like that re-telling of events? Well I don't like the premise that IRC was a 'nerd' tool that was waiting for some geniuses to polish it into a billions-dollar gem.
I suppose I wanted more from this post than I got. But on the other hand, nobody really knows the future of work yet so it'd all be speculation anyway.
I think I have a pretty good vague idea though; it'll be collaborative between humans and AI. We'll do different things on our computers and I hope, maybe even use our brains more in planning, architecture, etc, be it code or otherwise.
Humans like being in control and (often) don't like the dirty details of real work - although I recognize the HN crowd is an exception and does in fact love the dirty details of getting work done. But globally, outside of software especially, I think we'll want to move details to the AI (as scary as that sounds) and have higher-level management tasks for humans. Not just code review, but yes, code review too.
I see nothing to engage in this post. Is there a thesis, or is it just repeating the news?
i'm sick of hearing 'for nerds' as a disparaging remark about the lack of business appeal.
the line I mention is talking about the success of Slack relative to IRC ; well, guess what -- before slack plenty of companies ran their discourse through IRC for little to no cost; the fact that Slack raised xx-Billions of dollars is only evidence of their business ability, not that they somehow 'solved irc'.
Someone re-created an IRC clone, polished it, and then schmoozed businesses into buying a service that was essentially previously free.
Don't like that re-telling of events? Well I don't like the premise that IRC was a 'nerd' tool that was waiting for some geniuses to polish it into a billions-dollar gem.
As a former IRC nerd I think this drastically undersells what Slack accomplished.
I suppose I wanted more from this post than I got. But on the other hand, nobody really knows the future of work yet so it'd all be speculation anyway.
I think I have a pretty good vague idea though; it'll be collaborative between humans and AI. We'll do different things on our computers and I hope, maybe even use our brains more in planning, architecture, etc, be it code or otherwise.
Humans like being in control and (often) don't like the dirty details of real work - although I recognize the HN crowd is an exception and does in fact love the dirty details of getting work done. But globally, outside of software especially, I think we'll want to move details to the AI (as scary as that sounds) and have higher-level management tasks for humans. Not just code review, but yes, code review too.