Comment by lionkor
1 day ago
Everything you use every day depends on a few core libraries and services that are truly crafted by some competent people. Take your browser and all the various fantastic libraries it uses to decode and display content to you. How about cryptography libraries like OpenSSL? Linux itself, I would consider the result of craftsmanship, same with most GNU software. You're really, really, really missing a lot here with your evaluation.
You're right, people don't care about craftsmanship, until their vibe coded TLS implementation causes their government to track them down and have them executed. Then, suddenly, it matters.
People don't "care" about material science either. Without it, we'd be screwed.
Yes, I did mention that there's a few FOSS projects that are handcrafted that work because of lots of contributors or at least eyes (I guess I should have also mentioned corporate maintainers). Foundational libraries, Linux kernel, stuff like that.
But on the whole, a lot of software (mostly user facing) is pretty bloated, filled with bugs and no one cares.