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Software quality is tied to the market incentives and always has been. AI isn’t going to make someone care about writing robust software and that is why we don’t see better software all of a sudden. The market doesn’t rewards apps that don’t break on every update, it doesn’t reward cobbling together multiple independent solutions, as opposed to using Microsoft as a one stop shop. If people could have gotten away with this in the early days of computing they would have, but computers were too low powered, and the knowledge too scarce.

There is a saying

Any idiot can build a bridge that stands, but it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands

We found the limits of what it takes to make software stand, and what software paper cuts people are willing to deal with

parent Decabytes 3 months ago

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