Comment by namaria

"Big data" -> "Cloud" -> "LLM-as-A(G)I"

It's all just recycled rent seeking corporate hype for enterprise compute.

The moment I had decided to learn Kubernetes years ago, got a book and saw microservices compared to 'object-oriented' programming I realized that. The 'big ball of mud' paper and the 'worse is better' rant frame it all pretty well in my view. Prioritize velocity, get slop in production, cope with the accidental complexity, rinse repeat. Eventually you get to a point where GPU farms seem like a reasonable way to auto-complete code.

When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. Any bigger excavator you send down there will only get buried when the mud crashes down.