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But isn't this the way everything seems to come nowadays? Couple years ago everything was built on a blockchain, years before everything was going microservices, earlier everything was moving to the cloud... while every fad had its merits and is here to stay, none of them lived to the level of hype in which they came wrapped up - and rightly so.

Edit: one example being the touted IBM-Maersk blockchain solution, ground-breaking as it was in 2021 then quietly retired in 2022.

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"Couple years ago everything was built on a blockchain"

I've never worked anywhere where blockchain was used.

"years before everything was going microservices"

The vast majority of software architecture has gone microservices.

"earlier everything was moving to the cloud"

I've worked many places where the cloud was used but never 100%.

You are right, blockchain was a fad, everything else you cited are valid and remain.

I agree this all fits with the blockchain as well.

Which works because I generally think any company that used that word was either misusing it for buzzword bingo or it was pointless or a scam.

The difference is the blockchain enabled scams and wasting massive amounts of energy. AI enabled scams, wasting massive amounts of energy, and destroying all chance of trust in communication on the internet.

Sigh.

"Better to ask forgiveness than permission" has ruined us.

Eh, it's given us a tremendous amount of benefits across the internet as a whole. It's only once it enters into the territory where both permission and forgiveness are definitely denied that it becomes a problem - as well as the US insistence that free speech means an unlimited right to lie about things including your own products.

It's maybe a problem of scale, since I can't easily name any entity that could "forgive" a questionable decision made by Google.

Let’s be honest. No one asks for forgiveness and there are no consequences of any kind, especially if they’re externalities to your business.

Ruin the internet or something else for an extra $30k in profit. It’s fine. That’s what we do!

Pre-2000, Java and Object-Oriented programming were the big fad.

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