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> perhaps even enshittification This is rather silly, since steel today is far superior to the steel of his day. The complexity he bemoans is part of that pro
by pfdietz 1y ago
> perhaps even enshittification
This is rather silly, since steel today is far superior to the steel of his day. The complexity he bemoans is part of that process of improvement.
- datameta 1y agoI did not mean to imply that steel quality has in any way continued to suffer. He was talking about the process of the early 20st century in comparison to the late 19th when steelmaking was handled more end-to-end from maker to user. I am talking about enshittification of digital applications and services compared to the earlier years of the information age.
- xeonmc 1y agoThe transitory enshittified steel subsided once scientific formalization of their requirements emerged. I wonder if the transition period of vibe-coded slop will eventually be supplanted with formal-verification that supersede even the quality of cottage codesmanship, or would it forever remain in snakeoil-ridden limbo due to unspecifiability of software taste unlike that of a material’s mechanical performance?