Google search keeps switching me to Spanish. One day recently I went on Reddit and it said “null” after every username. Google Sheets had a weird rendering bug that was worse then I’ve ever seen in google’s office clone products. Anecdotally it does seem like more bugs. Can’t imagine why!
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?
#102We've always had bugs. Good chance that it's largely confirmation bias - you're familiar with how software development has changed in the past 6 months, and especially if you don't like it, any time you see a bug or a problem, you'll attribute it to that.
nah, things are worse. Basic userfacing components in windows frequently shit the bed. File explorer in W11 is near unsuable for example. grim state of affairs. Problem extends to many other platforms at scales where its not a quirk here or there, but rather, I can not longer use system instability and unexpected behaviour as a signal that maybe something is wrong that needs fixing.
Bugs and errors were rare and spaced out enough in the past, that when they happened I'd wonder if hardware was on it's way out, or if I broke something. Now, I simply assume software is fucked and I am almost always right.
Re: Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?
#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's a much larger elephant in the room
Ooh ohh Ohh I think I know what it is!
While I don't want to ruin this thread with coming out, I can't find a better place - sorry.
While I have a guess on what elephant everyone is thinking about, I wonder if it's just the stock market - at a higher level capitalism itself. I have felt Android get less stable with pretty much every release for many years now, well before the current boom. I think this is all a long term trend devaluing craftsmanship, with a root cause of why care if you can still make tons of money anyways.
Re: Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?
#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ooh ohh Ohh I think I know what it is!
While I don't want to ruin this thread with coming out, I can't find a better place - sorry. While I have a guess on what elephant everyone is thinking about, I wonder if it's just the stock market - at a higher level capitalism itself. I have felt Android get less stable with pretty much every release for many years now, well before the current boom. I think this is all a long term trend devaluing craftsmanship, wit…
I tend to agree. This does seem attitudinal and around for a long time. Plus “Hurry up and break things” etc. has added to it. Furthermore, support & support metrics which could have been a great signal for such things is, I suspect, measured on something else (e.g speed to resolution of a ticket ) I am surprised that quality does not seem to have caught up yet as a moat - atleast amongst those who can afford it and atleast for big ticket items.
Re: Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?
#105Google AI studio has crazy bugs
Re: Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?
#106It 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 .
A comment about enshittification will most certainly get downvoted by the enshittifiers and I'm guessing there's a few enshittifiers in any crowd lol
Re: Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?
#107Native apps are ok. Web apps in enterprise are buggy AF.
Re: Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?
#108I think this is clearly an AI problem. I always believe 2027 will be the first year of massive bugs. We will probably see many serious issues.
AI is only a tool, but not everyone sees it that way. Many people trust AI too much because it improves productivity. They directly ship AI-generated code to production, or they do code review much less carefully.
Re: Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?
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#110I 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.
QA is more likely needed for humans, but in the LLM era, when agents write consistent code, there is no need for it anymore in my opinion.
A bad example, but still: I recently developed a TG bot without a single test, and yet, it works.