Autodesk burns the village to feed AI and the Cloud – cuts 7% of workforce(blog.adafruit.com)
31 pointsby zdw8 hours ago6 comments
  • VerifiedReports5 hours ago
    Autodesk can just die at this point.

    It's an anti-customer, anti-industry, anti-everyone succubus riding on tired legacy trash and incompetent court rulings that allow it (and other corporations) to steal from customers and creators of all kinds... even musicians.

  • KellyCriterion3 hours ago
    20 years ago when I was in 3D graphics/rendering/gaming they were the absolute "must-have-tools" - is that still the case today?
  • garyclarke272 hours ago
    Autodesk is an evil rapacious company. Competition authorities should not have allowed them to buy Revit, to create a monopoly for Architecture software, enabling them to get away with charging outrageous prices to Architects, especially considering how poorly paid they are.
  • simianwords3 hours ago
    Very emotional article. I keep seeing this trope but I wonder how people reconcile this: autodesk is enshittifying its product. Users are leaving. But also wall street likes it. But also Wall Street is this powerful institution that keeps making money.

    How does all this add up? Is Wall Street so stupid to encourage all products to enshittify thereby leading to their own loss of investments?

    • miohtama39 minutes ago
      It's vendor lock-in. Same for Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, etc.

      It would cost too much for customers to switch.

    • e40an hour ago
      Wall Street are made up of people with incentives. The incentives drive the behavior and not some collective will.

      Wall Street will be the last to find out the emperor has no clothes. That is called a stock crash.

      • simianwordsan hour ago
        a crash will hurt wall street too. if you believe incentives drive behaviour then believe that they don't want the crash.
    • rankdiff3 hours ago
      Maybe they believe too much in — user hates the new feature before loving (and adapting to) it. Just like UI revamps.

      And, sometimes, they are right.

    • watwut15 minutes ago
      > autodesk is enshittifying its product. Users are leaving. But also wall street likes it. But also Wall Street is this powerful institution that keeps making money.

      Enshittication makes earnings go up. Not infinitely, but for long. Enshittication is not done for fun, it is done for shorter term profit and Wall Street is all about that. Eventually it will go down and Wall Street will desert the company, moving money into something else to enshittify it.

  • BoredPositron4 hours ago
    It's Autodesk they would burn anything for more money.
  • Dig1t3 hours ago
    Why does everyone seem to hate Autodesk?

    I’m new to hardware stuff but have been putting in a lot of time in fusion 360. It seems to work well on Mac and Windows and it’s free for me just starting out.

    I got a year subscription for $350, which was not a horrible price.

    I will say it is very weird to me that there isn’t an open source program with all the features that Autodesk has.