Comment by danans

7 days ago

> Not software engineers being kicked out and some business person pressing a few buttons to have a fully functional app (as is playing out in a lot of fantasies on LinkedIn & X)

The theory of enshittification says that "business person pressing a few buttons" approach will be pursued, even if it lowers quality, to save costs, at least until that approach undermines quality so much that it undermines the business model. However, nobody knows how much quality tradeoff tolerance is there to mine.