Like other tech fads, there is a reasonable basis of useful stuff underneath a much larger lather of big, frothy bubbles. Almost every idiot is running around t

Like other tech fads, there is a reasonable basis of useful stuff underneath a much larger lather of big, frothy bubbles. Almost every idiot is running around talking about using "machine learning" for their new system without understanding what this means, just as they're doing with "containerization", "orchestration", and so on. The rule of thumb is that if Google or Facebook releases some toolkit for something, the next 3-5 years are going to be a hellscape of idiots clogging up the channels for the relatively small number of people who may have an actual, legitimate use for these tools. But since the idiots are bored at work and can tell their bosses, "Well, Google does it this way, so it must be the best! We're important just like Google, right?", we have to languish through their tiresome drivel, and watch as they drag their companies through a quagmire, only to propose the next fad as the savior a couple of years later.