>snark incoming - Imagine thinking you understand the product strategy for a 14 year old, publicly traded company with thousands of employees without working there or having any sort of insider knowledge.
Snark incoming. Imaging a society so shitty that you have to try to "understand the product strategy for a 14 year old publicly traded company"
That is, one society in which companies dont go about their business, aiming for sustainable growth and a healthy profit, but pivot to whatever unrelated technology (or, more often, bullshit fad) comes next, to prop their stock or to increase their valuation when they're sold.
> in which companies dont go about their business, aiming for sustainable growth and a healthy profit, but pivot to whatever unrelated technology (or, more often, bullshit fad) comes next, to prop their stock or to increase their valuation when they're sold.
Meh. You could've said the same thing about companies leveraging dot-com, or going mobile first. All these were a net gain for investors and society.
I don't really understand what you are saying. That companies shouldn't have product roadmaps? That product roadmaps are mutually exclusive to sustainable growth or healthy profit? That companies using new tech are only doing so to prop up stock prices?
1. that companies should have specific product areas and focus, and not pivot all over the place, as mere profit-seeking machines.
2. that companies embrace all kinds of BS trends, hyped technologies, and empty vacuum BS solutions looking for a problem (from NFT, web3, metaverse, blockchain)
3. that companies (as in this case) also embrace valid technologies (like LLMs) that have no real application to their products, and will just retrofit them in some ugly BS way nobody asked for, just to send the signal "we're still cool, we're getting on the next bandwaggon, buy our stock"
4. that the current behavior (actually, for decades now) is not about "sustainable growth and healthy profit" but about stock market games, and about endless unsustainable growth that destroys their core offerings and alienates customers
1. Just a strange take. Companies can do whatever they want. If they fail, they will fail. Companies are mere profit seeking machines. Perhaps you are thinking of non-profit orgs?
2. So what? People embrace all kinds of trends. And companies are made of people. This is basically a tautology...it's only a trend of people are embracing it. Also zero of your examples are the topic here.
3. This goes back to my original post...we don't know how they plan to use LLMs. It might be useful, it might not be.
4. Just pure cynicism. Some of what you're saying happens at some companies. But not most.
>Just a strange take. Companies can do whatever they want.
Yes, and I'm saying they shouldn't.
>If they fail, they will fail. Companies are mere profit seeking machines. Perhaps you are thinking of non-profit orgs?
No, I'm thinking of the idea of the civic responsibility of companies, and of a market that serves society, not just maximizes profit. Perhaps the barbaric 2023 is not ready enough for it.
>So what? People embrace all kinds of trends. And companies are made of people.
Yes, including BS trends, detrimental to them, their families, or their communities. And, like companies, should embrace less BS trends and more good trends.
>This goes back to my original post...we don't know how they plan to use LLMs. It might be useful, it might not be.
We do know it has nothing to what people got into Dropbox for: simple file sync and offline copies.
>Just pure cynicism. Some of what you're saying happens at some companies. But not most.
Simple starry-eyed market fanboyism. See how two can play the ad hominem game?
Saying your comment was cynical is not an ad-hominem. But regardless, it sounds like you've taken my comment and applied your desire for a complete alternative reality to it. Which, I guess.
Snark incoming. Imaging a society so shitty that you have to try to "understand the product strategy for a 14 year old publicly traded company"
That is, one society in which companies dont go about their business, aiming for sustainable growth and a healthy profit, but pivot to whatever unrelated technology (or, more often, bullshit fad) comes next, to prop their stock or to increase their valuation when they're sold.