Beautiful on paper. But it does not scale outside a certain type of tech people.

What’s the scaling bottleneck? If you made a local-first, P2P version of Figma what would break first? For a company of like 50 people, I doubt you’d have more than 100GB of data so it should fit on everyone’s computers. The P2P syncing part seems solvable, even if you need a centralized handshake server somewhere. And from the user perspective I don’t see why the UX couldn’t be identical, so it’s all the same to them.

It seems like the real bottleneck is something else.

> If you made a local-first, P2P version of Figma what would break first?

The guy who has to keep it running day by day, next to the other 30 local-first systems.

What is there to run? There are millions of apps that don’t require maintenance, this was the default before SaaS.

Every app need maintenance if it's connected to the internet. Security updates at minimum.

It seems it is the buzzword of the month.

Yes. The anchor chain got broken sometime ago. It's still there, but nobody want it anymore.

Unless it's illegal in more places, I think they won't care. In my experience, the percentage of free riders in Brazil is higher (due to circumstances, better said).

Smells like "Banco Master" (Brazil) scandal.

Weird thing is that it can ease things like that too.

Yeah, miss good ol' mom, gradma talk: you (should) love people; things you like them.

You are becoming Brazil (brazilian here).

Brazil is the end state

Things would come in SDKs, and docs were in MS Help .chm files.

I can't stop thinking what happened when CASE tools, WYSIWIG, UML, Model Driven Architecture/Development, etc was pushed into devs. I know, it's a different phenomenon (that was a graphical visual push, this keeps the text).

We've had it on code as well. The factory pattern, workflow engines, SOA, lo-code, cloud computing, serverless, a billion different templating engines for js, js the right way, jQuery, not jQuery, SPAs, noSQL, graphQL, micro services, event sourcing and on and on.

Every couple of years there's something that if you aren't using you're apparently doing it wrong.

I think maintaining this AI code is going to turn out to be a nightmare and everyone will tone down on it, not letting agents run off on their, but we'll see.