The stock price of the company that caused worldwide outages and economic havoc, Crowdstrike, even in a stock market affected by the Iran war, is higher today than its peak before the outage. Massive worldwide economic harm, no real consequences.

I actually went and checked, Crowdstrike, CRWD, had an insignificant fall after the bug in October 2024 (around 300 USD). By mid November it was already up 10%. Today, it’s around 768 USD - it had a huge bump up from April/26 onwards.

When developers say that LLMs make them more productive, you need to keep in mind that this is what they’re automating: dysfunction, tampering as a design strategy, superstition-driven coding, and software whose quality genuinely doesn’t matter, all in an environment where rigour is completely absent. (…) Those who are most vocal today about the dysfunctions of LLM-coding were already warning about the dysfunctions of the software industry well before the “AI” bubble began.

I feel somewhat vindicated and seen, I have been complaining about shitty software for a number of years now (increasingly bloated and slow because fuck you, get newer hardware), though mostly blaming javascript, electron and react. I should look at the bigger picture, the money, that incentivizes the dysfunctional application of those things