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I think one helpful trick when thinking about AI hype is to replace mentions of "AI" with "Blockchain" to see how silly it all sounds.
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The "Cloud to Butt" extension appeared around 2013 and I think that's about when things started to go downhill quickly.
I was a tech enthusiast back then already running my own homelab and I think myself and a lot of others began to see that the cloud wasn't really so much a tech advancement as a marketing gimmick. The new thing to shove into all other things. The cloud is just someone else's computer and having a coffeepot connected to it isn't really a new, innovative piece of tech, is it?
Smart phones felt big, but since then a lot of consumer tech feels like it lacks true innovation and follows on the cloud pattern. We'll be stuck in the cycle until it's broken