2025-11-29 15:46 UTC
@cstross@wandering.shop
Hard to disagree. I remain a Y2K sceptic despite assertions by the ITsphere that it was vital.
On AI convinced it’s worse than the South Sea Bubble for fantasy & delusion.
As a hard-nosed retired Chartered Accountant with 50+ years in commerce I really see little realistic business applications.
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@cstross__dup_483@wandering.shop 2025-11-29 18:02
@CAFCA47@mastodon.scot Y2K was a very real problem—I was in a dot-com, a payment service provider, in 1997-2000 and the banks were collectively shitting themselves over 40 years of technical debt. The only reason there wasn't a disaster was because all the (entirely justified) doom-mongering stuck a cattle prod up the collective arse of the bank boardrooms and regulators and they *fixed it*.