Imagine a bot, stamping on a human face – forever

Automation is driving the next wave of commoditization, threatening to replace skilled workers.

This has worrying consequences if your skill set is the next one to be commoditized.

In hardware, a huge variety of general-purpose computing kit has been simplified down to essentially just two alternatives.

In software, there are roughly three mainstream choices: Windows and a few flavors of Unix.

Windows is very strong in home computing and gaming, which means predominantly non-techie folks.

Millions of moderately tech-literate folks grew up with Windows and have basic familiarity with it.

Windows comes free with your computer, and 100 percent of games and work stuff run on it.

For those who are interested and motivated, FOSS Unix has a lot to offer.

The creation and destruction of these uncountable host machines is managed by software that was the key technological innovation that made AWS rich.

If LLM bots can do an acceptable job of deploying and managing software-defined infrastructure, then they will drive down the price of skilled FOSS practitioners.