[mannanj]

I like the direction this is taking, and I think the more radical and more coherent endgame is data ownership returning to us and AI's replacing website brands all together as the AI generates any UI we could ever want.

Today most websites offer interfaces for accessing the data that they hold hostage. However they are holding our data. We would prefer to have it back if we could, and AI will enable that. Our paradigm will shift this way eventually I hope.

Though it's true companies dont have an incentive to hand over data custody anytime soon, AI companies have already found a way around this in little ways and its a matter of time until it goes to where all the data we could ever want is within the AI cloud and our next task is simply taking back ownership of that (where local inference takes us).

[mannanj]

Sadly though maybe the AI companies and our leaders-acting-as-overlords have already guessed this end game and have started to push these "subscription to laptops" and "own nothing" models with shortage of hardware and rising costs of things like Mac mini's indicating that could be a reality we experience.

[jcdcflo]

See, when you buy my product, you're not buying a place to store your data...you're renting my expertise. To be clear, we make exporting data extremely simple and you can do so even after subscriptions expire.

The joke for decades has been that we are all competing with Excel...nothing has changed.