I get this comment everytime I say this but there are levels to this. What you think is bad today could be considered artisan when things become worse than today.
I mean, you've never used the desktop version of Deltek Maconomy, have you? Somehow I can tell.
My point here is not to roast Deltek, although that's certainly fun (and 100% deserved), but to point out that the bar for how bad software can be and still, somehow, be commercially viable is already so low it basically intersects the Earth's centre of gravity.
The internet has always been a machine that allows for the ever-accelerated publishing of complete garbage of all varieties, but it's also meant that in absolute terms more good stuff also gets published.
The problem is one of volume not, I suspect, that the percentages of good versus crap change that much.
So we'll need better tools to search and filter but, again, I suspect AI can help here too.
bartread|19 days ago
My point here is not to roast Deltek, although that's certainly fun (and 100% deserved), but to point out that the bar for how bad software can be and still, somehow, be commercially viable is already so low it basically intersects the Earth's centre of gravity.
The internet has always been a machine that allows for the ever-accelerated publishing of complete garbage of all varieties, but it's also meant that in absolute terms more good stuff also gets published.
The problem is one of volume not, I suspect, that the percentages of good versus crap change that much.
So we'll need better tools to search and filter but, again, I suspect AI can help here too.