GitHub enshittification and the SaaS prenup
It is always better to propose a solution instead of pointing out a problem, but while listening to another rant about GitHub enshittification, I came up empty. Not because there are no alternatives—because all of them are entangled in the same incentive structure. There is no escape from market logic, where you build a great product to lure customers in and then switch efforts to lock them in and extract as much value from them as they can stomach—while the core product becomes an afterthought. ...