So, I feel I saw a but of what the author was talking about in the discussions I’ve been having about Sony deciding to kill physical discs.

Most of the people making the argument that this is bad are really centering their argument on what should happen. The software should be sold as a good and work without requiring an Internet connection or update. The public should punish these poor business practices from occurring.

But there aren’t meaningful consequences to not doing what should be done. The rules don’t have consequences.

And it is hard to have conversations with people who are pointing out that there are rules and they should be followed when those rules have only been suggestions for decades.

The article writer is right; there aren’t any rules to software development any more outside of needing to develop a monopoly or dependence immediately.

It was a good read; thanks for sharing.

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