< Passing Knowledge to Gen-Zers
Don’t all these SaaS enable to you to focus on actual tinkering with the thing you are making rather than tinkering with your tools? I like iPhone, cause it just works. I like Fedora with Gnome, cause it just works. I like GitHub actions, cause it just works! I don’t need to do package management, tuning the CI/CD or maintaining the database, as it’s done by AWS. I just build things. These stupi… simple SaaS let you do creative job, not the chores
I don't think so, on the contrary. They push a unified way to do things that is dumbed down. Anytime you want to do something a bit off the road, there's mostly nothing you can do. Not talking about people building a specific cloud targeted knowledge, centralization of the internet (how do you like your internet when some parts of AWS are down?), lock-in. It also forces you to deal with your cloud provider issues in addition to your own. I can see the value of spawning a VM to quickly prototype something. But everything else is just bloat on someone else's computer. I work in the cloud business, and I grew to hate it :)