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the public is so used to good quality software that they are in for rude awakening :)

• dwattttt 5mo ago
  And yet, quality can always get worse.
  • bdangubic 5mo ago
    it could and likely will but it’ll be in the news for a day tops and the world will move on to the “next thing.”
• lelanthran 5mo ago
  The thing is, people already have certain expectations from their software, because it is all around them. They'd revolt en-masse if their TV had the downtime of github, of if their computer had the number of successful supply chain attacks that npm enjoys. The quality may not have been good, but the market had stabilised on what the public would accept. AI changes this substantially.
  • bdangubic 5mo ago
    it absolutely doesn’t. most software is shitty and buggy. I know, have seen 30 years worth of it. just now we can write the shitty and buggy a lot faster. ask anyone that has been in the industry for awhile and they will tell you the same thing. a lot of crowd on HN write as if human-written code is any good and while there are always exception, on average, most software is shitty. if I had a dollar for every time I met someone writing software for “X” saying “dude, if you knew what I know you’d never use/do/… X” I’d be a very rich man
    • lelanthran 5mo ago
      Most software may be shitty, but users absolutely are not prepared for the level of shittiness we see in vibed projects. That's what I'm saying: users are used to a certain level of reliability. They might not be so accepting of a decline.
      • bdangubic 5mo ago
        example? or this is theoretical?
        • lelanthran 5mo ago
          So many, so numerous examples. But, lets start with the C compiler written by an AI, guided by the comp[any that sells the AI. Do you really think that the average user is eady yet to accept that sort of degradation in quality?
          • bdangubic 5mo ago
            C compiler written by AI is used somewhere to compile production code?
            • lelanthran 5mo ago
              > C compiler written by AI is used somewhere to compile production code? That's the point - it isn't used; the quality is too poor to even replace tcc.
              • bdangubic 5mo ago
                > They'd revolt en-masse if their… who is revolting? still waiting for an example of this ficticious, unfortunately often-cited fantasy… if the example is C compiler no one uses (no one even spent serious time trying to make it work either) the bar is waaaay to low for your line of thinking IMHO
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• Zigurd 5mo ago
  Have you tried editing a speaker group in Google Home? That vibe is handcrafted and certified organic.
  • bdangubic 5mo ago
    I would rather vax my entire body than put google in my home