[tete]

I think people are getting used to stuff not working. People (like me) use crap like Teams, Slack, that web version of Office, Outlook, etc. on a daily basis and pour huge amounts money in. They use shit like Fortinet (the digital version of dream catchers) and so on.

Things break. A lot. Doctors successful or not also deal with the same shitty IT on a daily basis.

Nobody cares about engineering. It's about selling stuff, not about reliability, etc.

And to some degree one is forced to use that stuff anyways.

So sure you can go to a company understanding engineering, but if you do a job for salary you might lose out on quite a bit on it if you care for things like quality. We see this in so many different sectors.

Sure there is a unicorn here and there that makes it for a while. And they might even go big and then they sell the company or change to maximizing profits, because that's the only way up when you essentially already made it (on top of one of the big players).

For small projects/companies it depends if you have a way to still launch big, which you can usually do with enough capital. You can still make a big profit with a crappy product then, but essentially only once or twice. But then your goal also doesn't have to create quality.

Microsoft and Fortinet for example wouldn't profit from adding (much) quality. They profit from hypes. So they now both do "AI".

[rnewme]

Yup, we are all definitely lowering the bar of what's acceptable when it comes to uptime and bugs. More features more hype x10 seems to be the standard approach to market, but there are still a lot of companies and teams where greybeards and rational folks remember and understand previous hype cycles/bubbles, and who appreciate and protect the engineering approach. It's just that they mostly hire/partner by reference, so it's kinda hard to exit the toxic bubble of startups and "growth hacking" enterprises.