MongoDB is the textbook success of "Zero friction and slick marketing beats good engineering discipline" that is the AI froth right now.

From a technical standpoint? Very different. From a marketing standpoint when selling to software-development clients? Same space.

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saalweachter 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah, glancing at headlines this is basically "MongoDB is a company with a lot of experience selling to enterprise clients (and by extension the CEO knows how to run such a company), Meta wants to sell enterprise clients their AI offerings".

Which is like, not as weird as most AI company headlines, to be honest?

	▲	Pxtl 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Not just that, they're also kinda similar value proposition, in that it's "holy crap look how fast you can develop code if you just ignore all of the longer-term risks you're creating". Both AI and Mongo can be used for good and quality code but that's not how they get sales.