This is my experience as well. OP is parroting a common talking point from the groups that want to privatize education.

I went to a Math/CS magnet program for high school with selective admissions. It wasn't racially diverse and 90% Asian, but most of them were born into working class families. Virtually everyone went to top universities and did extremely well. My brother who went to a top tier private school used my teacher's math curriculum.

They eliminated the selective admissions after I graduated and now the program is worse. The teachers teach less because the students cannot learn. The students don't go to top universities anymore. But it is diverse and equitable.

I don't want to live in a world where I must buy my children access to education. Not getting into a good university and being forced to suffer the consequences of my actions made me realize the value of hard work.

If from 0-18, the determinant of my children's success is how much money I spend on them, I'm not teaching them to be better than me.

OP is sharing their experience, and you are sharing yours. neither experience is universal, and it has nothing to do with wanting to privatize education. rather it is a call for reform of the school system. (all public schools should adopt the montessori method in my opinion for example. it's not expensive. it takes just one year of training for teachers)

Not to mention that we now know it appears to be especially detrimental during childhood learning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd-_VDYit3U

NYT doesn't like digital advertisers and the programmers who make that possible. They're directly in competition.

journalists are like our own simon willinson: they need to put food on their plate by networking with powerful entities that fly them out to conferences

Also litigation. I'd imagine there are a number of patent trolls in the space.

My experience is that the folks in charge of spending and making decisions are looking at AI as another means of outsourcing. Payroll, ERPs and CRMs went from commodity software to subscription services and anything that is subscription based is getting scrutinized much more heavily now.

TBF, open source alternatives don't have the legions of sales teams wining and dining VPs to get the contracts.

> No one wants to host, maintain, and be liable for shit other people can do better for less money.

I think the point is that AI will be able to do this better and cheaper than the SaaS companies.

You missed my point. Upfront cost is not the only cost in business. And I still stand by it that shared infrastructure costs for example are way more efficient than everyone doing a half-arsed version of whatever it is.

I agree with you in the short term but what makes you think companies will even be asking AI to write bespoke software or setup any kind of infrastructure in the long term? Theoretically AI would handle all of this for you with much greater fidelity and accuracy than any human could manage. Any business processes would be handled by the AI which already has all of your corporate data. Why would I need a SaaS service when I could have the AI do the task or generate the answer? Why would I send data to a SaaS when I can just give it to the AI? Granted I don't believe we are anywhere close to such a scenario, but it seems to be the trajectory that we are on.

> You can just mute and ignore them

Agreed, but how do we get the VPs to mute and ignore? They seem to lap that stuff up.

The blogger lists 6 years of experience on their homepage. Safe to take their opinions with a grain of salt.

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