I thought about writing a comedy, set in the far future, where everything looks beautiful but nothing works right and it's just accepted (almost unnoticed) as a running gag throughout the film. Now I wonder how prescient that would be.
Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?
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#22feature velocity >> feature stability.
Core libs/software have never been better, eg I have had much better luck with stuff like ffmpeg and virsh than ever before.
If it has a UI and targeted at consumers though? Bug city.
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#23There has been a steady decline for decades. Release early, release often. One example: Apple used to have a thing called Gold Master release when updating software was not as immediate. The GM programs met a high bar for quality. Not so much anymore… the attitude is we can just release a new version later this week. There also used to be a thing called backwards compatibility… now no one thinks twice about breaking code on older platforms.
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#24I feel like no one has said the elephant in the room.
QA teams were fired/never hired in the first place (put onto the Devs/support/customer to report and test)
Management want features and selling not Lovability and polish. We are just hitting an all time of make make make.
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#25It's pretty hard to separate this from confirmation bias. But I've had to disable the YouTube app and switch to mobile web because it would just buffer nonstop on everything; never had issues like with it like this before.
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#26I feel like no one has said the elephant in the room. QA teams were fired/never hired in the first place (put onto the Devs/support/customer to report and test) Management want features and selling not Lovability and polish. We are just hitting an all time of make make make.
There's a much larger elephant in the room
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#27On linux it is the opposite, I have never been more happy with my desktop experience.
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#28It'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.
Electron apps are selected for things that are harmful to your user experience.
That is, if you know how to make Electron apps you also know how to make web applications and web applications are generally superior and preferred by users. No install, no bloated runtime, "just works", say it again "JUST WORKS!"
Any time somebody makes an Electron app there is a reason why they make an Electron app and it usually is a bad reason. For instance, Electron apps can live in your tray and make your computer harder to use by hiding behind twisty little icons that all look alike, popping up and covering other things that live in the tray, etc. Defying the usual procedures for starting and stopping apps, finding and moving windows, etc.
And of course the whole point of living in the tray is running all the time, sucking RAM all the time, sucking CPU all the time, sucking GPU all the time, sucking network bandwidth, etc. In short, sucking.
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#29What software are you using? I can't say I've noticed it's worse than before. Software has always been very buggy.
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#30Vibe coding + AI psychosis so there isn't reality testing before it gets shipped.