The plan is to make us all use shitty hardware like a chromebook and rent compute from the cloud for anything heavier than a web browser.

There’s always going to be consumer products, even if the value proposition is worse.

If there’s a silver lining, I hope it leads to more optimisation, less Electron, and less bloat.

Typed from my 8GB MacBook Neo; which is honestly plenty fast enough. It “feels” like a 16GB windows laptop, even tho of course I know it’s not, but there’s something about optimisation.

While I definitely agree that there will be a slow down in purchase decisions for both consumers and businesses I struggle with this idea that there will be “no consumer products” in the market. There will be.

The future is starting to resemble smartphones that use predominantly RAM for local compute and inference while all persistent storage is managed by the cloud.

They can sell the AI products to write memory-optimized software to replace React apps.

Tragedy of the commons.

The AI companies will sell those products to us. Locked down and all.