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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?
#62It seems you are talking about the enshittification, which only affects megacorp-baked propriprietary software and services. It does not affect, e.g, GNU/Linux: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41277484 and https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/26/ursula-franklin/
Why is this silently downvoted? The OP didn't give any details about their devices or specific bugs. I think my conclusion might be correct, given that the corporations spend less on the user convenience/UX as a part of the enshittification trend. Also confirmed by this comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48920698#48924033.
Re: Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?
#63This might sound like a rant, but it's more an attempt to outline the breadth of the problem by way of many examples. Software quality sucks right now, enough so that I plan my life around it. Payment processing is regularly broken? I'll maintain a couple cards from different providers. Login systems are always broken? If you require a login then I'm going to weigh the quality of your service against not just its phy…
Yeah man, I think this exactly captures what I've been feeling - every time I need to get something done, I consistently hit some experience breaking bug. And you're totally right, I've actually just come to expect it and work around it... Do you think in the future apps that are stable and "just work" will be a moat? Feels like the direction we're trending in.
I thought about proposing that idea myself and decided against it. Consumer behavior is a bit hard to predict, and it's a little unclear to me how well "just works" will sell. I like to believe that's viable, but I don't really know.
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#66I think there are two sides to this.
On the one hand, surface level bugs do appear to be more common across the board. Like you almost wonder if anyone has ever test-driven the software even once before hitting deploy.
Operating systems and critical software does appear to be significantly more fault tolerant these days though. If you go back to something like Windows 95, it would BSOD with a frequency that is much higher than anything we're accustomed to these years.
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#67I haven't notice any significant changes.
My Linux experience gets more polished every year. Last serious issue I remember is a AMD GPU kernel crash around 2022(?).
I feel like Android has always had its glitches. I can live with the current set, but each update has me nervous about the new set of bugs that will appear.
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#69ALWAYS for basically any app or cloud service based software. I run into multiple bugs ALL the time.
In my day job as a network engineer, I see some of the wildest one off bugs in embedded firmware and networking devices that I honestly can only explain as possible CME interference xD xD
But with all honesty the `make make make` culture jozfar mentioned + companies pushing out only 80% completed products at best is probably what we are seeing.
I keep joking about how 2025-2026 we have some of the most amazing tech I have ever imagined being real, yet the hugest amount of just purely broken software all around that most just never seems to fully work the way its supposed to for one reason or another!
Other times I just start to think I am a bug magnet xD but glad to hear someone else is seeing the same thing
Re: Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?
#70I think software has always been terribly buggy. Back in the day, things would crash (including your entire OS in many cases) all the time. These days, it's more often smaller, stupid UX issues, but that's been the situation for a few years. I've seen no difference over the past six months.
Yeah in Windows XP time if my computer didn't crash several times a week, it was odd.