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Always hilarious to see Zawinski’s Law in action: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/150254/what-does-jamie-zawinskis-law-mean https://soft

• swyx 3y ago
  their only mistake was calling it “mail” and not “DM” which is just gen z mail
  • yamrzou 3y ago
    Or "Chatbot"
  • xnx 3y ago
    Zoomail?
• nytesky 3y ago
  This was my first thought as well. Isn’t there another truism, where something advances to a common end state?
  • rjbwork 3y ago
    Convergent evolution would be the general term I think. Not sure if there's a pithy technological or software -ism.
    • nlawalker 3y ago
      The form of this that became a meme relatively recently was carcinization - "everything becomes crabs". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation
      • nytesky 3y ago
        This is what I was thinking of, thank you!!