andrekandre

   > You can become CTO with this lack of business fundamentals, and a basic misunderstanding of systems engineering?

from first-hand experience? yes.

(in fact it may be a requisite ...)

the root problem isn't the code though; its the business and how its run that affects it, llms will just make it amplified imo

  > They are making spam games.

its why we need all those new data centers; to enable more of this and grow the gdp /s

  > i dont know how else to understand whats going on here.

cynically, tech (or maybe even capitalism itself) feels like its slowly degrading into nothing but vibes and scams to get that quick buck and/or exit

why talk to the customer when a chatbot can do it for you? your obviously not thinking ai-native... /s

i would second this. at $company they are jumping head-first into this and its not going well at all...

  > work tracking styles (agile, KPIs, etc)

the best de-motivators ever invented for anyone with drive and ambition to make anything great

  > a game they purchased on the App Store no longer working a year later, was also the last time many of them

(raises hand)

  > Apple couldn't care less about backwards compatibility.

its also the exact opposite of what an os is supposed to do: provide a base and abstraction for applications/programs to run stably; if apps breaks all the time whats the point?

  > Employers are reducing AI spending, not increasing it.

this.

n=1 but at $company we are already told to stop tokenmaxing and find cost savings for ai to the point of degrading user facing features (no loading llm generated content by default etc)

from here it looks like prices have to come down or demand will stall...

its limited on purpose though; its much easier to get people into purchase funnels that way (see how much more money is generated for apple per user in ios/ipad vs macos)

ipad works great in those scenarios because its more "kiosk" than "computer"

but for work where you actually need to create things and do things that don't fit the mold (custom software dev, use multiple apps at the same time for creative work etc etc) a classic computer like a mac or windows/linux is far superior

i'm tempted to say "all politics is downstream from economics", but really economics an politics is quite intertwined; its not surprise things are spiraling...

customers don't like big changes to workflows they get used to; adding a new feature or a new button or menu item isn't a big deal but rearranging things so often start to feel random and shows little respect for the customer (or signs of any cohesive product design)

  > those people don't care about their customers

if it was any other industry like medicine, food, or construction etc, could they get away with just shipping products where they have no idea whats in it?

where things like "it tastes good to me" or "cement didn't crumble when i hit it with a hammer" is good enough to ship we'd be inundated with lawsuits and customer claims... its a total joke where the software industry is headed

thank you for replying, i assume that much, but still 30,000...