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Autodesk burns the village to feed AI and the Cloud – cuts 7% of workforce
- VerifiedReports 9mo agoAutodesk can just die at this point. It's an anti-customer, anti-industry, anti-everyone succubus riding on tired legacy trash and incompetent court rulings that allow it (and other corporations) to steal from customers and creators of all kinds... even musicians.
- rurban 9mo agoThat's why I took over the abandoned LibreDWG and revived it. The format must be freed. I was there since the 90ies.
- VerifiedReports 9mo agoI was there '90s-2000ish. Meanwhile, kudos to you for working on LibreDWG. I use FreeCAD quite a bit; do you think your work will be incorporated there?
- rurban 9mo agoThey changed their license, so probably yes. But so far they don't support that many objects, so their old solution is good enough, still.
- quickthrowman 9mo agoUnfortunately, they have a monopoly on architectural, CAD, and BIM software with AutoCAD and Revit. You’re completely locked in with no choice, everyone uses it so you must also use it. Trimble isn’t far behind in the ‘shitty and expensive construction software’ market, but they aren’t as ingrained as Autodesk. I’m not familiar with Autodesk in other industries but I assume it’s just as bad as their AEC software offerings.
- VerifiedReports 9mo agoThey're as bad as they can be; it's just that in others there's at least some competition. - former employee
- BoredPositron 9mo agoIt's Autodesk they would burn anything for more money.
- simianwords 9mo agoVery emotional article. I keep seeing this trope but I wonder how people reconcile this: autodesk is enshittifying its product. Users are leaving. But also wall street likes it. But also Wall Street is this powerful institution that keeps making money. How does all this add up? Is Wall Street so stupid to encourage all products to enshittify thereby leading to their own loss of investments?
- rankdiff 9mo agoMaybe they believe too much in — user hates the new feature before loving (and adapting to) it. Just like UI revamps. And, sometimes, they are right.
- e40 9mo agoWall Street are made up of people with incentives. The incentives drive the behavior and not some collective will. Wall Street will be the last to find out the emperor has no clothes. That is called a stock crash.
- simianwords 9mo agoa crash will hurt wall street too. if you believe incentives drive behaviour then believe that they don't want the crash.
- e40 9mo agoA crash is the result of collective behavior (greed). Individual behavior is driven by incentives.
- joseda-hg 9mo agoMore directly, they don't care about the crash, because some of them either can profit from the crash or more generally are incentivized to think they should extract all value right up to the point of crashing and not a second less, because that is leaving money on the table I see it as an extension of the tragedy of commons, no individual wants to destroy the finite resource, but everyone exploiting it to exhaustion always will
- KellyCriterion 9mo ago20 years ago when I was in 3D graphics/rendering/gaming they were the absolute "must-have-tools" - is that still the case today?
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- thot_experiment 9mo agoNo, still used by some major studios for sure but the community energy is all behind Blender. Houdini is goated in the space, all the Autodesk art stuff is basically only used because of vendor lock in and inertia. Fusion360 is the gateway drug of choice for CAD still but there's headway being made in the foss community on that front (as mentioned in the article)
- Dig1t 9mo agoWhy does everyone seem to hate Autodesk? I’m new to hardware stuff but have been putting in a lot of time in fusion 360. It seems to work well on Mac and Windows and it’s free for me just starting out. I got a year subscription for $350, which was not a horrible price. I will say it is very weird to me that there isn’t an open source program with all the features that Autodesk has.
- garyclarke27 9mo agoAutodesk is an evil rapacious company. Competition authorities should not have allowed them to buy Revit, to create a monopoly for Architecture software, enabling them to get away with charging outrageous prices to Architects, especially considering how poorly paid they are.