> people who are blown away by these new releases either don't spend a lot of time writing code, or are being paid to be blown away

Careful, or you're going to get slapped by the stupid astroturfing rule... but you're correct. Also there's the sunk cost fallacy, post purchase rationalization, choice supportive bias, hell look at r/MyBoyfriendIsAI... some people get very attached to these bots, they're like their work buddies or pets, so you don't even need to pay them, they'll glaze the crap out it themselves.

That's how half of these "agents" posts feel to me in general.

It's not a shortage, it's a cartel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVzeHTlWIDY

I've seen suppliers using google sheets for a list of tens of thousands of items. Also color coded and filterable and what not. It worked. I could access it programmatically, I had no complaints. (Especially with an experience of some of these suppliers having shitty hosts and shitty platforms and their massive XMLs taking forever to load.) Then again I'm sure I would speak differently if someone just decided to rename a column randomly :D

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