This is the kind of thing AI labs will use as ammunition to pass regulations.

<TvTropesLink>Taking You With Me</TvTropesLink>, hmm?

...

Anyway, I immediately noticed the opening graphic is... well, bizzarely wrong.

There is a logo of Salesforce. Yes, a big software company, opposing it fits nicely into the agenda.

Then you see a logo of... AWS?

Not even Amazon per se, AWS.

Amazon Web Services.

A cloud computing subsidiary.

A HARDWARE subsidiary.

Not software, which OccupySaas aims to replicate cheaply, hardware.

Hardware.

Tens of billions of worth in hardware.

How does that fill the software liberation agenda?

Then you see logo, er, favicon of Google. Perhaps entirety of Alphabet is targeted, perhaps not, who knows.

But not only Alphabet is a cloud computing giant - again, hardware, not software, hardware - but Google itself is a huge CONSUMER-facing brand. Not business facing. What does that mean? Is the logo of Google Docs not iconic enough?

Then you see the logo with a letter N in a box. What does that mark?

Yeah, I know.

Notion, a groupworking platform.

I checked it and, yeah, annual revenue of Notion does not exceed $1 billion. Even.

https://getlatka.com/companies/notion

For comparision, Salesforce nears almost $44 billion as of now. Notion is not even visible at this scale. Not even a mini-major, but a independent <scratch off>film company</scratch off> software house. It's not even publicly listed (yet).

(Hacker News should really add buttons to apply basic visual formatting options for comments. Trivial to apply. Seriously)

Why Notion was choosed but not SAP? Why not Workday? Why not Shopify? Autodesk, even?

(There is also logo of Microsoft)

The graphic clearly went "to print" with nary a check.

This is a very interesting mix of tone-deaf, disconnected from reality, AI-hype, and naivety that is just hard to wrap ones head around. where do I start.

First, is tech workers the 99% now? Come on, look at the average salary vs national median anywhere in the world. This is just a stupid take.

Second, this sounds like the idea of "Twitter is just a couple of SQL tables and UI pages" level of "I don't understand the depth of software engineering".

Related:

https://remade.wiki/

Okay, so I'm supposed to replace a well-supported, stable company's product by a vibecoded slopfest of a vindictive, laid off engineer? Who in their right mind would do that? That's the other side of the medal of managers pushing for "we'll just use AI for that and build it ourselves".

It's not the same commodity. Most stuff has already open source alternatives.

I'm sorry, but if I'd see this when checking your GitHub in an application, it'd be a red flag for me.

While admirable in vision this is just the masses tearing each other apart, with the feudal lord 1%-ers just looking on.

While tearing down Adobe you’ve probably paid Nvidia, Anthropic, and Microsoft in the process, while at the same time no amount of Claude will make a dent in any of these behemoth strongholds. Adobe, evil as they are, aren’t the ones controlling the world’s knowledge, flow of goods or compute.

This is almost comically similar to “the immigrants are taking our jobs and are eating our pets” and how in-fighting about this has enshitified the real world, while not having solved any single problem along the way.

It’s like overthrowing governments with machine guns and guerilla armies. Yes, the playfield has been leveled. Literally.

Is there such a thing as an AI craze?

and then, when it gets big enough it becomes it's own saas with the same exact problems thus completing the cycle!

I really doubt this goes anywhere

The irony of hosting this on Github