I like that law! My law for the past few years has been every app expands until it is beyond bloat, which is recognizable when it has the feature du jour, which can be found across every popular and unrelated app. At the time, that feature was stories, which could be found in Snapchat, instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Uber eats, and I think even Venmo at one point.
Once you got away from social apps, it was clearly feature creep. That was my indicator for when there was probably a better alternative app for accomplishing the app’s original purpose, but it was often too late to switch due to the network effect.
And now it's microblogging, sadly (well, it very nearly was a digital wallet.) I think an AI chatbot's only a matter of time...
Re:An app can be a home-cooked meal
by fuzztester on Friday January 05, 2024 @04:32PM
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There ought to be a law (or n ...) about JavaScript frameworks.
In 2007, Jeff Atwood made the quote that was popularly referred to as Atwood’s Law:[5]
“Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript.”
Re:An app can be a home-cooked meal
by fuzztester on Saturday January 06, 2024 @02:30AM
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Ha! Now we need a similar law for Electron, and for Slack, and for LLMs ...
Here's a stab (pun intended) at one for LLMs:
"Any application that can be written by an LLM, will eventually be written by an LLM."
:)