There's a lot of craftsmanship left out there, but people are distracted by AI and pay more attention to the mediocre apps on their phone because of the frustra

There's a lot of craftsmanship left out there, but people are distracted by AI and pay more attention to the mediocre apps on their phone because of the frustration they cause. The need to write good software and care about the details isn't going anywhere. If anything, all the slop is creating a stronger demand. All analogies fail to describe software precisely because we have shoveled all our problems onto software that we need to trust for everything. It is not furniture. Programmers are not factory workers.