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2024: Rant of the Tech Grinch

by itfossil on 12/24/24, 2:19 PM with 1 comments

• by itfossil on 12/24/24, 2:19 PM

  So as was typical with my end of year posts that I used to make on my previous blog, this is an end of year post. All of my end of year posts are basically rants regarding the state of the world and the state of tech more specifically. This time around I am going to focus primarily on tech as there is only so much shit my brain can suffer through at once. So how was 2024 in tech? In a word: terrible. Let’s dig into that.

  So why was tech terrible in 2024? Well a large part of this judgement revolves around the industry’s full fledged unquestioned embrace of AI bullshit tech. A lot of this to do with the fact that the big money investors tugging on the puppet strings of a lot of tech startups have essentially run out of practical ideas. Once the startups succeeded in getting the word out, the big tech companies decided that they all had to play catch up. Some of them bought into the ecosystem by investing in the startups, some of them built their own and some of them just piggy-backed on other people’s work.

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