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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra has had an adventure") wrote:
The example that's been on my mind lately is the "democratizing" saw that slopbros keep harping. Already before AI it was true that creating things with computers was too difficult, and that low code/no code products were often tied to subscription services — that is, a lack of comfort with user-hostile tooling was treated as a form of lock-in.
It's thus not surprising that "democratizing" now looks like encapsulating the commons and locking in to "your first hit is free" models.