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Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?
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Re: Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?
#12Sure, but I would have agreed with you 10 years ago too. We were in the throes of making really fat assets that weak computers couldn't load quickly.
Re: Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?
#13iOS is definitely buggier. It used to be a silky smooth experience but it's degraded significantly in the last year or so. Safari on iOS, in particular, is very bad. Lots of problems in Adobe Creative Cloud on Win 11 (primarily Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator) in recent months too.
Re: Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?
#14It's similar to the ElectronJS desktop app problem. Sure the desktop apps use a lot more system resources, but it's doubtful those apps would have been created in the first place if it wasn't for the speedup of development allowed by ElectronJS.
In this case, sure software is buggier, but there's also a ton more software+features that wouldn't have existed before AI coding tools.
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#15I mostly feel this on Microsoft stuff. O365 browser stuff was always buggy, but last month I had to fight to zoom in on something in PowerPoint. Pagination in Azure ML randomly broke, it took them a month to fix it.
Atlassian is also a bug factory, but I did not expect anything better of them. Each UI update they did to Confluence and Jira just made everything more confusing in the last 10 years.
Re: Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?
#16I would say yes, but not particularly more in the last 6 months.
Re: Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?
#17Honestly no, I have not noticed this.
Re: Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?
#18I mostly feel this on Microsoft stuff. O365 browser stuff was always buggy, but last month I had to fight to zoom in on something in PowerPoint. Pagination in Azure ML randomly broke, it took them a month to fix it. Atlassian is also a bug factory, but I did not expect anything better of them. Each UI update they did to Confluence and Jira just made everything more confusing in the last 10 years.
Holy smokes is the browser versions of PPT, OneNote, word etc buggy, I could not believe that was an actual released product. Random page crashes, refresh loops, etc, all for the crime of using firefox on a mac. The bottom of their test matrix sure, but not exactly netscape on windows XP.
Re: Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?
#19Websites and mobile apps, definitely. Every time a typical proprietary mobile app updates I wonder what they will break. They always do break something or remove a feature I want.
Desktop apps, not in general. Some work better, like KDE's DE has fixed some irritants.
Re: Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?
#20It's definitely been buggier for a while now. It's already been an issue for a decade or so due to the "release minimum viable product, fix problems with patches/updates model" (especially in the world of video games), but the rise of AI has only made the issue more apparent. Microsoft is the biggest example here (with Windows 11 seemingly screwing up something massive in every update), but other companies like Google and Meta haven't been as reliable either.