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Smells funny.
This presentation is like the most mean spirited parody of how reactionaries view Occupy Wall Street.
My AI dyslexia kicked in about half a scroll down their page, I can’t read the source further.
US industry has already mastered using and abusing open-source software, so they can absolutely fuck this project up. We wouldn’t be in the predicaments we are today without that abuse, going back to Linux servers and the build-out of cloud SaaS. The main selling point of a SaaS is the support, followed by the hosting. There are plenty of other relative-to-this-apolitical self-host alternatives without any of this stink. Does anyone not on a stock market even use Salesforce?
I’m at a fucking loss for who actually benefits here. Lockheed and McDonalds are gonna save some money using the Salesforce clone from a point in time with no new feature delivery? At best it’s like some kind of corpo-focused adventurism to free IP that only corpos and startup wannabes actually care about. If you’re thinking about contributing to this, I’d urge you to donate to a real organization that’s standing in solidarity with workers, instead of just spiting former employers or whatever this is.
It does make me think again about the value of tech coops. There have to be some common services like identity, file management, etc that are a good fit for a local tech coop. Have you seen anything like that?
Nope but if I do I will do everything in my power to get in on it!
It should be quite obvious why making alternatives to these proprietary platforms is objectively a good thing, yet here we are.
Hence the recent changes to Clob, disallowing software deconstruction and reworks or however it was worded?
They aren’t going to let YOU use LLMs to your benefit. Just theirs. Silly proles.
Good thing this tech is actively developed outside the burger reich.
That was only for video games, for copyright issues I’m assuming.
It’s quite tough to come up with software that’s not a knockoff of something that has existed before. Good luck using Claude to make GTA7.
Make a Saints Row game but less fun and with higher definition textures. Make no mistakes.
This is the correct way to resist capitalist use of LLMs. Corps don’t care about your incessant whinging, if people want to see something different then they have to roll up their sleeves and build alternatives outside corporate control.
You must about there’s something a little ironic about this, given the llm is the one one doing the work while the people act as managers.
Unfortunately I don’t see much of a future in this. AI reimplementations have the potential to unseat adobe as they mainly sell to price sensitive consumers. Salesforce and crms are not sold on price, they’re b2b and sold in schmoozing, reputation, sales teams and everyone’s overcomplicated, perfect little setup. They’re not going to switch.
Also the really big tech companies, Microsoft, google, Amazon etc, make their money from physical cloud or platforms, they’re completely unharmed.
Happy to be proven wrong though.
I think you’re right. Since I started working at
$DAY_JOB, the company has transitioned from a completely paper filing system to an electronic system. It has been a long process, identifying a process, digitizing the records, and creating internally developed applications so ordinary employees (like me) involved with the process can record the information which used to be scratched onto paper forms and stuffed into filing cabinets.For a long time, they were doing okay. They got locked into FileMaker pretty early, but otherwise the whole system was created and maintained internally. Then one day, management got sold on this expensive proprietary ERP system. Spent a couple million dollars on integration, and now everything is tied to this absolute dogshit, poorly integrated system for eternity. The thing absolutely sucks and for the same money they could have just used fucking PostgreSQL and developed a much better-integrated suite of applications internally.
These decisions are made for exactly the reasons you mention. Managers are universally illiterate, incurious, self-confident bastards who will set millions of dollars on fire and shackle the company’s future to parasitic vendors simply because they are affiliated with a large firm owned by a political kingmaker who sent a marketing rep to jingle keys in front of their face. We had a new executive who was trying to “modernize” the company he inherited from his father, and apparently modernization simply means getting fleeced by one of the richest firms in the world.
The managers who were responsible for this course of action are all gone now (not because of this), but their legacy remains. As much as they should get rid of it, the technical burden is now likely too high. They would have to migrate a decade’s worth of records and re-develop about 50 internal applications from scratch.
it’s happening regardless of whether or not the laid off rise up and do it. The big question is whether or not the company has a moat. The moatless will be harvested swiftly by the sickle and crushed by the hammer.
nice to see some fellow enterprising B2B SaaS conservative small businessmen
