🧵 The Attie backlash feels familiar. Not the "AI is bad part" but the "Company absorbs community feature" part. I spent 10+ years in the Magento ecosystem and watched eBay/Adobe do this multiple times. Were people upset? Yeah. Did we survive? Also yeah. Grandpa tells a story 👇
Mar 31, 2026 at 10:43 PM
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Attie feels disconnected from what their user base is going to respond positively to I bet, which makes me wonder if they build things in service to their community or not. With that said, Graze has had (something like) this forever and didn't get the same backlash. That's worth acknowledging.
