Big tech products are mostly useless
The comments here seem to focus on the specific examples, but this misses the point of the article, which I take to be that _every_ new product or feature, no matter how minor or how incremental, is treated as the second coming of the 100x engineer and the cheering crowds hand-picked to promote whatever they see aren&#x27;t helping by covering it rabidly.<p>He&#x27;s not wrong, but I&#x27;ve heard that complaint about the tech press in general for years, so I&#x27;m not sure its bringing anything new to the table on HN.<p>But at the same time, &quot;some of these will surely turn out to be revolutionary eventually&quot; isn&#x27;t a great excuse to treat everything as revolutionary before it has a chance to even be seen in the field.