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> imo products are getting worse, but that decline started before GPT Yes, and it's not going to change until the motivations and methodologies that drive the
by MrMcCall 2y ago
> imo products are getting worse, but that decline started before GPT
Yes, and it's not going to change until the motivations and methodologies that drive the corporation change. All these LLMs are just reinforcing their MBA mentality, which is to try to do more with less, which just ends up being more enshittification.
The money people only care about one thing, and one thing only. I say that the only real qualification for being a manager is to be willing to prioritize money over people. I've had exactly one good manager in my career, because he knew his role and respected that I knew and was passionate about mine while respecting his.
A main problem with all these huge software companies is that they are too busy chasing new features while letting long-existing bugs remain the bane of the users' experience. There's no "lets fix the current issues before we embark on new projects" mentality. I literally encountered this exact mentality in a dumb little marketing company 25yo. Different time, very small company, same dumbasses running the show.
When large software tries to be adapted beyond its initial design specs, it will eventually collapse under its own weight. At some point, a fundamental redesign must occur to prevent change grinding to a halt.
- godelski 2y ago> There's no "lets fix the current issues before we embark on new projects" mentality. Yeah I think this ends up being just monopoly behavior. Like a few times a year I drive through The Bay and every single time am left wondering "How is Google Maps so bad here?" Things like it'll tell me the exit number but numbers are small and names are big (give BOTH. Different strokes for different folks?) or how it'll tell me to get into one lane and then want me to make an impossible turn from that lane. There's a freeway interchange where for years it has told me to use either lane and the exit is literally two lanes with each one going a different direction... It comes off as feeling like no one is dogfooding their software. Which to me says something really really bad. Either no one internally is using the software they are building (so don't believe in it), no one is paying attention, and/or internal reports are flat out ignored. This should kill any business that doesn't have a monopoly. It is crazy to me that they push new features with the justification of better user experience while there's a lot of stuff that can be done to make user experience better for cheaper, faster, and is far more impactful. Sure, there's cool things like when I jump on WiFi my friend's iPhone asks them if they want to share the password with me, but are we really so fucking dumb that we think we know what is happening on each other's screens simultaneously as ours? And that "whoops, I backed out" or "whoops, I clicked off the dialogue" and then you can't repeat the process so I got to manually type in the damned thing anyways? Or just today, I was listening to music with my partner, turned on airplane mode, it turned off bluetooth, I turned it back on, and then I had to click "share" again and she had to... again pair her headphones. Even though she's in my family (they still haven't figured out that I don't care that her airpods are following me and that my airpods in my pocket are not in fact lost). There's so much of this fucking shit that every day normal people (aka my tech illiterate parents and family) complain about (and me!). I think a problem is that we also dismiss "complainers" on software teams. You need at least one grumpy fucker. The one that's not saying things are impossible, but the ones that are saying things are broken AND trying to fix them. We have too many people that are just putting their fingers in their ears and pretending problems don't exist. And don't get me started on ML (being a ML researcher myself). I don't understand how this community can confidently claim to control "AGI" (or even Stupid AI (SAI)) when details or issues are not just ignored, but we gaslight people who bring them up. Our fucking job is to recognize limits so we can fucking fix them...