Getting our applications out of the cloud provided the main celebration for our exit, but seeing the actual spend tumble is the prize. See, the only way to get pricing in the cloud down from obscene to merely offensive is through reserved instances. This is where you sign up for a year or more in advance on a certain level of spend. Th...
If there’s anything that 3 decades in Tech have taught me is that fad-following commonly rules it, even with the supposedly logical (but not really) techies.
Cloud storage and cloud computing became a fad about a decade ago (I still remember the hype repeated by people who had never actually designed distruted systems) so there were tons of people jumping headfirst without a plan into it for the hype and the seemingly cheaper price (if you didn’t think your needs and future evolution through) even though it wasn’t the best choice for them.
No doubt well see the same kind of fad-following over making-sense-for-us thing with the latest hype-train: AI.
Yeah, they use the buzz words but never explain why, in practical terms, it is an improvement over the non-buzzword version.
Oral-B has an “AI” electric toothbrush they sell, marketed as “artificial intelligence has learned from thousands of human brushing behaviors and instantly recognizes your brushing style”. What the hell?
Well, you can train a Neural Network on pretty much anything, even if there’s no point.
Putting ML in the middle doesn’t make it any less susceptible to the general problem with mathematical modeling that is Garbage-In = Garbage-Out - I would even say it makes it more susceptible because those doing it don’t even need to begin to understand what’s going on, unlike with more straightforward algorithms and formulas.