See, when you buy my product, you're not buying a place to store your data...you're renting my expertise. To be clear, we make exporting data extremely simple and you can do so even after subscriptions expire.

The joke for decades has been that we are all competing with Excel...nothing has changed.

Correct. Charlie Munger knew how this plays out.

People seem to forget...they got to train on the openness of the internet, but know the incentive to protect your domain expertise.

How do the models look in a couple years once we all remove our expertise from public view.

We’re going the other way where we are removing IP from public view.

Don’t count out on device, that’s where most of our focus is. If we can convert the voice / text to programatic commands on device, then we control the experience and don’t let the wolves through the gate.

Maybe they need to sort things out for people who pay through the nose for it cause I ain't comforted by vibe coders slowing us down.

We replaced everything except the git part because of reliability issues. Pages…gone Actions…gone KB…gone. Tickets…gone.

Maybe they need to get more humans involved because GitHub is down at least once a week for a while now.