The clear use case is serverless—without the complications of DynamoDB (expensive, 0.03/GB read), DynamoDB+DAX (VPC complications), or Redis (again, VPC requirements).
This instantly makes a number of applications able to run directly on S3, sans any caching system.
It’s very clear that Copilot/GPT-4 give superpowers to the generalist—-rapid prototyping—-and to the ultra-specialist—-no more yak-shaving in other domains.
Most roles that are run-of-the-mill “knows framework X” just enough to support naive clients or actually high/value teams, will indeed go to zero.
Which is amusing because 90% of the “AI” companies being started are run by people with no actual expertise, who probably are the most replaceable parts of deploying actual high/end systems.
Hiring people with low fluid intelligence (-2 stdev change with age) and people with low intelligence (sorry bootcampers, you would already have a quantitative degree if you had a high qualitative IQ)—-what a solution
At its peak, Coinbase stock had appreciated less since its seed round than simply holding Bitcoin
Thanks to brilliant management, like handing out a billion dollars to some google exec who knew nothing about crypto and shipped a product no one uses, Coinbase is now indexed to the average price of the shitcoins it consistently lists.
This instantly makes a number of applications able to run directly on S3, sans any caching system.