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Microsoft was so focused on the enterprise they forgot that enterprises are made up of individual users. Any trade-off that favors the enterprise in lieu of th

Microsoft was so focused on the enterprise they forgot that enterprises are made up of individual users. Any trade-off that favors the enterprise in lieu of the user actually benefits nobody in the long term.

mohamedkoubaa 7mo ago
The end state of genAI is that the end user is the enterprise
- Krssst 7mo ago
  The end state of genAI could as well be a few billionaires being their enterprise and everybody else being unemployed or working at the factory. Robots are not there yet (far from it) and someone needs to build and maintain the thing as well as food for everyone. High unemployment could drive salaries down and make lots of thing unavailable to the common people while making humans cheaper than automation for boring manual work. That's an extreme scenario but today's politicians are not very keen into redistribution of wealth or prevention of excessive accumulation of economic power leading to exceeding the power of the state itself. I see nothing preventing that scenario from happening.
  - exe34 7mo ago
    The French will lead the way.
    - mapontosevenths 7mo ago
      I imagine that the rabble will need to eat only a few before the rest catch on.
    - Krssst 7mo ago
      The French are on their way to put a far-right government in power next year, don't count on them.
  - sph 7mo ago
    > High unemployment could drive salaries down and make lots of thing unavailable to the common people while making humans cheaper than automation for boring manual work. ‘I wanted a machine to do the dishes for me so I could concentrate on my art, and what I got was a machine to do the art so now I’m the one doing the dishes’
    - mikkupikku 7mo ago
      But you already have a machine that can do the dishes. Like doing the laundry, people forget the machines they already have doing 90% of the work. Soon enough artists will forget that computers can do 90% of their work too.
nine_k 7mo ago
Crucially, at enterprise sales, those who make putchase decisions are not the actual users (except maybe for Outlook and Excel). They sometimes play golf together with vendors though. This is how stuff like MS Teams of Oracle Forms gets sold: it checks all the compliance boxes, has support, an SLA, "is industry strength", etc.
- ProfessorLayton 7mo ago
  This is true until it isn't though. Blackberry was doing great with enterprise users until people refused to give up their iPhones even at work.

mohamedkoubaa 7mo ago

The end state of genAI is that the end user is the enterprise

Krssst 7mo ago
The end state of genAI could as well be a few billionaires being their enterprise and everybody else being unemployed or working at the factory. Robots are not there yet (far from it) and someone needs to build and maintain the thing as well as food for everyone. High unemployment could drive salaries down and make lots of thing unavailable to the common people while making humans cheaper than automation for boring manual work. That's an extreme scenario but today's politicians are not very keen into redistribution of wealth or prevention of excessive accumulation of economic power leading to exceeding the power of the state itself. I see nothing preventing that scenario from happening.
- exe34 7mo ago
  The French will lead the way.
  - mapontosevenths 7mo ago
    I imagine that the rabble will need to eat only a few before the rest catch on.
  - Krssst 7mo ago
    The French are on their way to put a far-right government in power next year, don't count on them.
- sph 7mo ago
  > High unemployment could drive salaries down and make lots of thing unavailable to the common people while making humans cheaper than automation for boring manual work. ‘I wanted a machine to do the dishes for me so I could concentrate on my art, and what I got was a machine to do the art so now I’m the one doing the dishes’
  - mikkupikku 7mo ago
    But you already have a machine that can do the dishes. Like doing the laundry, people forget the machines they already have doing 90% of the work. Soon enough artists will forget that computers can do 90% of their work too.

nine_k 7mo ago

Crucially, at enterprise sales, those who make putchase decisions are not the actual users (except maybe for Outlook and Excel). They sometimes play golf together with vendors though. This is how stuff like MS Teams of Oracle Forms gets sold: it checks all the compliance boxes, has support, an SLA, "is industry strength", etc.

ProfessorLayton 7mo ago
This is true until it isn't though. Blackberry was doing great with enterprise users until people refused to give up their iPhones even at work.