I feel like, very generally speaking, the quality of software (meaning the efficiency, security, and such) has gone way up. It’s a wide range though, with some

I feel like, very generally speaking, the quality of software (meaning the efficiency, security, and such) has gone way up. It’s a wide range though, with some pretty extreme cases in both directions. The issue I have is what developers are being asked to work on. A technically pretty good product (Edge, say) is saddled with “special offers” and telemetry and other MBA bait. A corollary is a technically excellent product being overproduced and trying to do too much, like Evernote or Plex. We are at the far sales end of the engineer-sales pendulum. I’m hoping things like Boeing’s troubles will give the initiative back to the engineers for a while.