Comment by cpgxiii

Of all the bits of software from big tech companies that I use/encounter, there are very few that I would say are better now than they were a decade ago. If anything, I think most of them were better a decade ago than they are now, and I don't think that's a particularly uncommon opinion. I think there's a good argument to be made that any "rationing" then had a positive effect on software quality (at least when compared to the lack thereof in the "post-rationing" era), and that should be a very cautionary tale that a massive increase in software written by AI tools is likely to result in much worse products.