My partner & I made holiday cards this year, and they are set in the most festive font that exists: Zapfino. By the time you’re reading this, I’ll have already been to one Thanksgiving party.
Now’s a good time to get your book orders in. They will arrive in time for that big holiday.
Professional tools require professional commitments. The software must be updated. File formats are proprietary, usually, so they need to work for the duration of one’s career, for everyone. And so when there are significant changes to professional tooling, they must be justified with professional outreach, professional language, and above all professional pricing.
It is somewhat boggling that I need to spell that all out. Importantly, I do not run a company that makes professional tooling. I’m a nerd who likes computers, made it into their job, and has been plugging away at professional tools for the past 20 years. In the grand scheme, I’m truly nobody.
But we have forgotten the overall necessities of professional tooling, haven’t we? Or we would take one look at a professional tool suite going freemium and think “that is not a professional tool suite,” because it is denotatively not a professional tool suite. The way in which it is being discussed and priced is both not professional and not focused on the long-term requirements of professional tooling. How could you possibly embrace their proprietary formats knowing any of this? It’s too high of a risk.
In what specific ways are we preparing for a post-LLM world? By “post-LLM” I don’t mean the world after LLM has been invented (note: this has happened), but the world after the bubble pops. Most of my jurisdiction’s economy is based on this, and most of the tech industry has invested their future in this. It’s also unsustainable.
So beyond the predictable economic impact, what do you think is going to happen? In what specific ways are you preparing for it?