Many years ago, someone tried to get me into cryptocurrencies. "They're the future of money!" they said. I replied saying that I'd rather wait until they were more useful, less volatile, easier to use, and utterly reliable. "You don't want to get left behind, do you?" They countered. That struck me as a bizarre sentiment. What is there to be left behind from? If BitCoin (or whatever) is going…
  • ChromaticMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    If this tech is as amazing as you say it is, I’ll be able to pick it up and become productive on a timescale of my choosing not yours.

    While I agree, my boss sadly thinks otherwise.

  • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    For every HTML 2.0 you might have tried, you were just as likely to have got stuck in the dead-end of Flash.

    This one hurt. I had a decade plus old piece of tech debt from when they fucking killed flash before I could move on to new projects.

    • Redkey@programming.dev
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      4 months ago

      I sympathize with the point of the article, but if someone’s seriously citing Flash, which had widespread success for a run of about 15 years before being overtaken by later developments (driven in part by a billionaire with an axe to grind), as a short-lived “dead end” that was best avoided, then how long do they think is a sensible amount of time to wait to see if something’s worth spending time and effort? Nothing remains on top forever.

  • MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    At least for Bitcoin it made some level of sense.

    With AI?

    If it really gets that good that everyone needs to use it, I can just ask AI how to use AI like a pro.

    Or I can just tell AI to use AI for me (isn’t that what OpenClaw is?)