I think X led the way in robotic hellscape innovation that’s now being adopted by Reddit.

Oh cool, I did not know about this

You are so right.

This is a big help! Thanks!

I generally hate them in consumer-targeted apps. Theoretically, there’s nothing wrong with the model. Devs have to keep the lights on, especially if there is a cloud service behind the app. It’s all about what pricing model they set. However, pricing is hard. A lot of companies really screw this up right at the start. I also think a lot of businesses cannot resist the temptation to boil the frog and ask for more and more over time, until their pricing is way out of alignment with value delivery.

This one really surprised me.

example: https://www.adblockpodcast.com/

I think it’s because privacy is less an issue with podcasts (ads don’t have as many options to track) and enshitification of the experience has been on a slower roll than, say, youtube. Lately some solutions are out there in the form of commercial apps but they are limited and who knows if their biz model will survive. I’d like to see an open source solution but I haven’t found one.

A lot of so-called low code can be a trap. I’m less afraid of SaaS so long as there exists an equivalent on-prem option. SaaS has a place for sure. SaaS-only is a concern, I agree. I agree with a lot of the assertions of this article, except I would probably first recommend Camunda 7 or 8 over SWF. Camunda is developer friendly, open source and has more mature offerings. A large part of the value of adopting process orchestration tools is the ability to support a model -> run -> monitor & optimize type of closed loop cycle. Camunda does this very well.