> It‘s a bit of a „isn‘t Dropbox just FTP on a VM“ moment right now.

Since this is not the first mention of Dropbox I've seen in HN threads in the last 48 hours:

Let's not forget that Dropbox was at its best when it was "just" a streamlined ftpd over sshfs or whatever - when it was just "a folder that syncs". That didn't last long, the downfall started with them killing their most useful accidental feature[0], which started them on a path of enshittification[1], which they followed swiftly and diligently into complete irrelevancy they enjoy today.

So if the agentic tooling is now enjoying its "Dropbox moment", I implore people working on these tools, don't overdo it.

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[0] - The "Public" folder initially supported direct linking, meaning you could publish static web sites by simply putting them in Dropbox/Public/, you could update the files there and changes were immediately "live". Notably, this was the heyday of phpBB and similar discussion boards, back between the rise and subsequent fall of free image hosting - so the ability to put images in your Dropbox/Public/ and hotlink them in a discussion was extremely useful and popular way to use the service.

[1] - They didn't just kill direct links, they replaced them with what I consider to be OG enshittification pattern - captive page that asks you to press a button to download. Yes, same one every "synced drive" service offers now, to enable various functionality that's 99% harmful to the user with the link.