Comment by sensanaty
6 days ago
> Low quality being "expected" (which isn't true in my experience, either) is irrelevant when the software doesn't work at all.
Yep, fully agree. We're going through this ourselves at $CURRENT_JOB, where the instability of the platform and product as a whole due to the immensely bad decisions made in the project's past is leading to massive churn from every single customer other than the smallest ones that make us no money anyway.
And it's not just the customers, the devs are feeling it too. There's constant fires and breakages all over the place because management doesn't care to give us any time to focus on quality, and people (myself included) are getting tired of having to read through some 10kLOC monstrosity that not even God Himself could understand, and it's made worse by the clueless management saying "Have you tried having AI find the bugs for you?" like a bunch of brainless sheep being injected with that sweet ol' VC hype machine.
Sure, people will put up with some bugs from time to time, and I'm not even saying I could've or do make perfect choices as well. But there's only so many times people will put up with a broken experience before they cut ties and quit, and in this vibe-coded hallucination world we're entering, are people really going to be okay with the products they use day-in, day-out changing behavior drastically every single day based on whatever the AI decided to hallucinate this time around to "fix" that 1 persistent bug that can't seem to die?
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