Comment by gchamonlive
6 hours ago
Are the managers of these hypothetical places still interested in keeping the high standards and good design? Enshitification isn't inherent to the technology, if this is what you are deriving from the counterexample, it's a business strategy my dude.
It’s a combination of technical capabilities and human nature / incentives in big companies.
Concepts like good design, security, quality are abstract and hard to measure.
Time, cost, revenue etc are easy to measure. The “quality” people eventually get push aside by the money people.
This is not new, but LLMs further tilt the balance
> This is not new, but LLMs further tilt the balance
You speak as if llms had their own minds. Every time anyone talks about AI doing this or that they further reinforce this idea that there isn't a person behind all this. There's always someone watching.
With that said, when you say that llms tilt the balance, who specifically do you say that's driving llms to do that?
It means an ambitious manager can take on more work by having the team slop out. They move up (very effective leader!), standards fall, other managers have to match the changes. The bill comes due years later after they have moved on (and up).
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