Cathartic venting for some, perhaps, but not a very insightful piece. Rehashes various mostly wrong examples and comes to a predictably lame conclusion about “capitalism”.
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Wow just wow
Bullshit Has Dominated the Tech Industry
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#33I feel like the person writing this article has never worked in a professional environment: getting it right is hard, you always have pressure to meet a deadline (for obvious reasons), but if you don't have a deadline, you can also end up in analysis/development paralysis where you don't spend your time on important stuff. A lot of the projects that person is talking about ended up being pretty good a year after thei…
> A lot of the projects that person is talking about ended up being pretty good a year after their launch Right. His point was that these things are being released before they're fully baked. That's a problem, and one that is much more common now.
Yes but its a different problem. Thats a capital allocation issue, a VC problem.
His larger point seems to be that we are relying on increasingly complex systems that may become unmaintainable. Its the great tech circle of life.
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#34> After the fiasco that was the release of Cyberpunk 2077 — a game estimated to cost more than 300 million dollars, including the performance of actor Keanu Reeves —, many people began to question how far the so-called late stage capitalism can go.
Really? Releasing a multi-year software project worked on by many, many people that was buggy but still more or less served its purpose is someone's idea of capitalism teetering on the precipice? If we truly believe "bad results for consumers" means capitalism itself is reaching its end stages, an earlier stage of capitalism featured people just brazenly selling pills with tapeworm eggs as a weight loss supplement and no real regulatory apparatus equipped to stop that, so what was that? "Late-stage capitalism" is becoming one of those buzzwords that doesn't mean much of anything.
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#35> Apple, known for supposedly delivering sleek products, launched in 2010 the iPhone 4, still under the tutelage of Steve Jobs. Within hours of release, users flooded the internet to complain about dropped connections and abrupt reductions in internet speed. The problem, according to Jobs, was with users holding the iPhone 4 with their left hand [8]. As this was a hardware issue, it was never really solved.
They did fix it with later versions of the iPhone 4 and with the iPhone 4S. Also, I remember that they made the "bumper" cases to alleviate the issue with the antenna: https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/IPhone_4_Bumper
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#36I find that I generally agree with the sentiment but putting Apple in this list is a little preposterous. Yes Apple Maps was terrible, but with continuous improvements, at the moment it is a good if not the best product. Outside of that, they have had very few bad products that they released (yes including the $1000 stand) in the last decade.
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#37This article has stated very clearly and succinctly something that a lot of knowledgeable people have been screaming about for a long time. Excellent work. Unfortunately, I don't see a solution to it anytime soon, short of everything just falling apart.
If you look on the opposite side of the coin, you will see that we do have a bunch of tech that is very good these days, in a larger quality than the failures.
IMO these types of failures are simply a percentage of the overall tech, and the reason they seem prominent is because there is just a huge race in tech over the past decade.
If you actually want to fix it and reduce that percentage, push to replace engineers with computers. A lot of engineering problems are search problems. Computers are better at search than humans.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
> A lot of the projects that person is talking about ended up being pretty good a year after their launch Right. His point was that these things are being released before they're fully baked. That's a problem, and one that is much more common now.
If they ultimately succeeded, this seems like very poor evidence that it's a problem.
This comment confuses me. I think it may be a matter of what problem people are concerned about.
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#39The only sentence I disagree is this one
> We are allowing too much power to be concentrated in the hands of a few people, whose ultimate goal is this relentless pursuit of money, not a human project for society.
Swap "power" and "money" and I agree.
> We are allowing too much MONEY to be concentrated in the hands of a few people, whose ultimate goal is this relentless pursuit of POWER
First step, stop giving them your money. 2nd, take away what they've illegally or otherwise ill gotten.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
You don't see a problem with releasing unfinished work? When has that ever been acceptable in any discipline?
It’s typically in the eye of the beholder what “finished” means. With stuff like Cyberpunk 2077 I’m not at all fussed by there being bugs in a complicated video game. But most of the complaining about the game was feature requests. Maybe those elements make you like the thing less, but it’s not necessarily incomplete. You’re rarely gonna ship something perfect.
The real issue with C2077 is that so many people pre-paid for a quality game, and never received it.