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Comment by swat535

11 hours ago

Support burden? When did companies care about customer support or system maintenance?

They already did the bare minimum allocation to both despite engineering screaming at them.

I highly doubt executives are going to accept slower release and sale cycles in order to provide better support.

If anything, I expect this trend to accelerate. I’m imagining the opposite, a plethora of AI slop with increasingly burned-out engineers.

> slower release and sale cycles

Sales are out of their control.

If there’s a market for quality and you don’t have it, sales are going down no matter what the PHB wants.

If there’s not, watch out for the vibe-coded competitor.

Buggy slop products will burn buyers and then people will buy less. The very-early-80s video game companies shoveled out slop, including a few games that wouldn't even launch. Which led to the Great Video Game Crash of 1983.