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I wonder why everything became worse lately. The software, food, services, healthcare, cars, amazon, social media, google, politics… literally everything that was good is now worse. I was thinking to myself and I couldn’t name anything that became better honestly. Please prove me wrong so I’ll be a bit happier tomorrow.
Everything started being taken for granted -> people got lazy and stopped doong good job (in all levels from dishwashers to presidents) > everything slowly going downhill
But there are good news.
Crisis are there for reason. It fixes these things.
Then we got another 5-10 years of growth and prosperity.
It is a part of the general trend of unproffessionalism and ignorance. Everything started being taken for granted -> people got lazy and stopped doong good job (in all levels from dishwashers to presidents) > everything slowly going downhill But there are good news. Crisis are there for reason. It fixes these things. Then we got another 5-10 years of growth and prosperity.
It is a part of the general trend of unproffessionalism and ignorance. Everything started being taken for granted -> people got lazy and stopped doong good job (in all levels from dishwashers to presidents) > everything slowly going downhill But there are good news. Crisis are there for reason. It fixes these things. Then we got another 5-10 years of growth and prosperity.
This seems like a weirdly wishy-washy reason to go with, when we could pick out a more tangible one instead: For some types of software, being a bit painful to use is (counter-intuitively) the more profitable route. These user-hostile patterns are copied by other teams and apps because they are seen as “what’s professional” or “modern.” And then those get copied by others, so on and so forth… until you get the modern…
Big budget banking apps were always painful to use. That is not a change in anything.
> Reliability and security often feel lacking too.
If anything, there is more focus on those then in the past.
Just a few of my opinions regarding why there’s so much low-quality software: 1. No culture of craftsmanship in software outside of niches such as native Mac software development. “Move fast and break things” was supposed to mean embracing iterative development practices and not being afraid to make changes when necessary, but this philosophy has been stripped of its original context, which has resulted in recklessne…
Just a few of my opinions regarding why there’s so much low-quality software: 1. No culture of craftsmanship in software outside of niches such as native Mac software development. “Move fast and break things” was supposed to mean embracing iterative development practices and not being afraid to make changes when necessary, but this philosophy has been stripped of its original context, which has resulted in recklessne…