2025-10-10 15:31 from Nurb432
My personal dislike aside, is it just my corner view of the
industry, or is the entire IT ecosystem collapsing? Bunch of

freaking siloed morons. Everywhere. 

No, it is not you. It is actuall collapse.

The whole sector is bubbling very hard. Projects have budgets way above what they need to function, and lots of projects everybody knows are going to fail also get a shitload of funding. Except during the last few years, funding has been gradually cut.

On the other hand, software is getting devaluated very hard. Services you used to be able to sell for 15k USD now you are going to have a hard time selling for 5k. We have normalized many services being free so end users won't pay for them.

I know enterprise contracts are multimillionaire still, but if you examine many of those up close, they don't hold up. It is an unstable house of cards and they know it. You see Nvidia investing billions in OpenAI, then OpenAI uses the investment money to buy Nvidia hardware. It is the oldest trick in the book to make it look like money is moving and raise stock value, but in the end of the day you have loses even if your accounting books show sales.

I think the videogame industry exemplarized the devaluation of software. There are so many games against so little demand, they are worth nothing. Lots of people only buys games when they are 2 bucks (against a listed value of 20). It is entirely possible to make a library of *professional* games just by grabbing them during promotional giveaway events. You can purchase gaming hardware and game for years without buying a single game, and that is before you account for actual piracy.

But then there are retards who will purchase a 16-bit game for 80 bucks, so a big segment of the industry has adjusted to get the attention of these psycho spenders. This segment operates under absurd astronomical budgets but their customer base is shrinking because the number of psychos willing to pay 80 bucks for a random game is dropping, therefore big game sector is in a pre-crash state. Have you heard the Arabians bought Electronic Arts recently? This is the reason, fundamentally.

2025-10-16 18:52 from IGnatius T Foobar
Subject: Re: IG update!
Heh. Two SVPs are arguing over my start date. It's nice to be wanted.

Congratulations.

Don't you love it when it is Monday morning, you arrive to office, the API your customer offers you to interface with your accounting system is down, and they don't fix it in the entire day so billing is deferred a whole day?