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That's just a non sequitur. "companies are already paying thousands per seat" has zero correlation with something being a fad or not. There are much more reason
by lbrito 4mo ago
That's just a non sequitur. "companies are already paying thousands per seat" has zero correlation with something being a fad or not. There are much more reasonable rationales explaining why companies are acting the way they are than "because AI coding is not a fad"
- tmp10423288442 4mo agoCan you name a service that charged companies thousands/seat/month that turned out to be almost or completely useless? There's lots of random services sold to corporates that are not very useful (all the random benefits besides health care, life insurance, and other big-ticket items), but the per-seat charge of those is much smaller.
- edent 4mo agoGoogle Jam Board (and other digital whiteboards) had high upfront capex and lowish opex. Probably close to the price for how often they were used before being killed off. Same with the MS surface(?) tables (not tablets). I saw load of companies buy into the hype and then discard.
- mike_hock 4mo agoEvery consultant ever, but to be fair that's not per seat.
- LtWorf 4mo agoHey I'm a consultant. They pay me to be a regular developer but they cannot hire since they just fired thousands of people which they apparently did need, turns out.
- marcosdumay 4mo agoThere are so many. Can I start with Oracle databases?
- therealdrag0 4mo agoOracle DBs have powered enormous numbers of applications and economic value.
- sdevonoes 4mo agoNot a service, but do you remember Scrum Masters? We had them as full time employees not so long ago. Pure fad.
- ThunderSizzle 4mo agoI hope this is sarcasm, or "half" my job doesn't exist or something. Or you talking about full time non-dev scrum masters?
- oblio 4mo agoYes
- therealdrag0 4mo agoHah. Great example actually. But far less common than AI afaict.
- ipaddr 4mo agoOracle and some company wide Microsoft licenses.
- therealdrag0 4mo agoThese are clearly useful.
- iammrpayments 4mo agoCompanies love to waste money on that kind of service, before this website became everything about AI, every week someone would post how they saved a gazillion dollars by leaving vercel or AWS to self hosting as an example.
- therealdrag0 4mo agoSo you think AWS is a fad?
- overfeed 4mo ago> Can you name a service that charged companies thousands/seat/month that turned out to be almost or completely useless? The Concorde turned out to be fad (not "useless" - which was your reframing.) Touted as the future of travel, each seat cost about $20,000 of today's dollars, but it turned out even at those high prices people and companies were willing to pay per-passenger, supersonic trans-Atlantic air travel is not economically viable, and was discontinued.
- LtWorf 4mo agoAll the NLP experts that companies bring in to make those seminars despite it has been debunked decades ago for example…
- Kiro 4mo agoIt's just silly to claim it has zero correlation.