Posts by Kicksec.io 8 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Sep 2024
When the government has said no or is about to say no, then the platform pays attention..... money always rules and right now the mining of shitty data for the occasional gold nugget is a repeat of the mining booms in the past, still super expensive to find and only a few will survive to make money.
The fact that LinkedIn turned on the capability without asking, then came back to say "we are doing this, so suck it up" and you can opt out of forward data capture is a disgusting breach of trust. LinkedIn is a professional platform and they did not act in a professional manner.
Not to mention the crap that an LLM trained on LinkedIn will spout! Vendor marketecture and influence and mentor prompt responses will give a different flavor to Reddit and Facebook trained data..... X is a level of depravity all of its own.....
When I have my soapbox ready I get it out and stand on it saying "Software vendors with legacy products (or products with a fresh application of lipstick on the pigs lips) do not do very much if anything to improve the product. They will have one software dev (if lucky) who does some work on several tools who provides bug fixes and compatibility updates as "new features" for full version releases.
The Software industry is an interesting one, as the only ones who develop rapidly are pre IPO and living on investor money, once IPO'd focus has to move to making profit and growing customers towards an acquisition, once acquired the software is going to start dying unless lucky enough to fight the right purchaser. When no one can see how to keep going the software company it goes to PE for their revitalization, basically fire lots of people and rationalize before passing on again to another PE company as a "fixed" ship.
In all of this, the devs importance becomes less and less - unfortunately so :-( My warning is to seriously test the market before new investments are made in mature products.
Ah it makes sense now, ahead of IPO...... If there is one thing that will get investors frothing at the mouth, it is an infusion of AI into the product marketecture. As they already had AI embedded in their investor information this just adds more sweet $$$ (krona's) to that IPO value.
SSO was never implemented because VMWare is like any other large software vendor, acquire technology because it is cheaper than building it, gives a complete "check box" list of features dow a web page.
The main problem with the growth through acquisition is that there is this think called acquisition cost, bringing the products into line with the rest of the software suite, sometimes (most of the time) it costs money to do things to centralize and after digesting a big acquisition keeping money in the bank is more appealing that designing things to integrate the stack better (like SSO), besides one of the fundamental cost savings that is made after any acquisition is reduction in development headcount.
Can't develop new features when you get rid of your team and don't want to spend, I was looking at a product recently name is like "Big flix" owned by IBM and then someone else ...... in one screen we saw behind the 'kimono' - wow, my comment at the time was "Lipstick on a pig". VMWare has been no different for sometime, too big/fat to innovate.
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