Comment by ymck
18 days ago
And it's not just Microsoft. Apple and other are having the same issue. Something fundamental seems to have happened post Covid but before AI.
WFH, flood of Dev hiring, increasingly hostile worker relations, a bunch of web 2.0 folks finally retiring, VC money drying up...
take your pick.
Software is just crappy these days.
> Something fundamental seems to have happened
It just became more visible: testing _is_ expensive and time consuming.