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The enshittification will come for the software engineers themselves eventually, because so many businesses out there only have their shareholders in mind and n
by ljm 2y ago
The enshittification will come for the software engineers themselves eventually, because so many businesses out there only have their shareholders in mind and not their customers, and if a broken product or a promise of a product is enough to boost the stock then why bother investing in the talent to build it properly?
Look at Google and Facebook - absolute shithouse services now that completely fail to meet the basic functionality they had ~20 years ago. Google still rakes in billions rendering ads in the style of a search engine and Facebook the same for rendering ads in the format of a social news feed. Why even bother with engineering anything except total slop?