Tech won't freeze in place exactly where it's at today even if some people want that, and even if in some cases it actually would make sense. And.. if you advocate for this I think you risk losing credibility. Especially amongst technologists it's better to think critically about structural problems with the trends and trajectories. AI is fine, change is fine.. the question now is really more like why and what for and in the interest of whom. To the extent models work locally, we'll be empowered in the end.

Similarly, software eating the world was actually pretty much fine, but SaaS is/was a bit of a trap. And anyone who thought SaaS was bad should be terrified about the moats and platform lock-in that billion dollar models might mean, the enshittification that inevitably follows market dominance, etc.

Honestly we kinda need a new Stallman for the brave new world, someone who is relentlessly beating the drum on this stuff even if they come across as anticorporate and extreme. An extremist might get traction, but a call to preserve things as they are probably cannot / should not.