That's all 100% true, but at the same time, wading through and figuring out how to dodge all the issues that come with being in "the cathedral" requires increasingly more and more cognitive load as well. If both are full of landmines, you might as well go with the bazaar.
I used to be hardcore "use Google services for everything," and while I still use a lot of them, I'm gradually replacing them with more disparate and often self-hosted options. I supposed I lose out on a lot of that integration, but personally I've found that I kinda just don't need it. The integration offered by living in an "ecosystem" has always been a kind of vague promise, defined more by what it potentially enables rather than what it actually delivers. At the end of the day, how much integration do I really need between my docs and my emails?
Even business use-cases for this stuff still require a lot of "going to the bazar," whether it's in the form of employees writing bespoke code, paying for another company like Zapier to actually do the heavy lifting for you, etc. This of course is the raison d'etre of LLMs in the workplace -- offering a comfortable interface, natural language, for making use of all this data and finally real-izing the mostly wasted potential for integration we've been living with for the last decade or so. It's "no code" on steroids, but IMO like most "no code" solutions, it too will fall short, promise too little juice for too much squeeze, and "the bazaar" will continue to live on.
I used to be hardcore "use Google services for everything," and while I still use a lot of them, I'm gradually replacing them with more disparate and often self-hosted options. I supposed I lose out on a lot of that integration, but personally I've found that I kinda just don't need it. The integration offered by living in an "ecosystem" has always been a kind of vague promise, defined more by what it potentially enables rather than what it actually delivers. At the end of the day, how much integration do I really need between my docs and my emails?
Even business use-cases for this stuff still require a lot of "going to the bazar," whether it's in the form of employees writing bespoke code, paying for another company like Zapier to actually do the heavy lifting for you, etc. This of course is the raison d'etre of LLMs in the workplace -- offering a comfortable interface, natural language, for making use of all this data and finally real-izing the mostly wasted potential for integration we've been living with for the last decade or so. It's "no code" on steroids, but IMO like most "no code" solutions, it too will fall short, promise too little juice for too much squeeze, and "the bazaar" will continue to live on.