There are some pretty big tech shakeups going on right about now.

It reminds me a lot about where I was on September 11th, back in 2001. I was at university at the time, and several of my classmates were breathlessly worried about the news coming out of the States. On the one hand, I was also a bit concerned about the people living in New York at the time, but on the other hand it was the 2nd week of classes and I was already falling behind in several of my courses. I remember, specifically when the second plane hit, I was leaving a Quantum Mechanics course and I couldn’t be bothered to stop and watch the news.

“This will all be over soon, and everything will go back to normal, and I’ll still have tests next week,” I remember thinking.

It turns out that I was wrong. Although I don’t think I did well on that test… I really struggled with Quantum Mechanics, although I did eventually pass.

This tech-stuff feels kinda the same. On the one hand, I don’t really care. All Big Tech news for me over the last few years has been either bad or awful. On the other hand, despite me not really caring and thinking that most of the “news” I’m hearing now is pretty stupid… I suspect that the vibrations from it may affect me, regardless of how I feel about it. With some luck, it is signaling the end of Generative AI, because gods has that ever been a pain in the butt.

But I do not think I ever get to be that lucky. Just not the way things usually work out for me.