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Comment by swat535

9 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.