[xhrpost]

There's an older article that gets reposted to HN occasionally, titled something like "I hate almost all software". I'm probably more cynical than the average tech user and I relate strongly to the sentiment. So so much software is inexcusably bad from a UX perspective. So I have to ask, if code will really become this dirt cheap unlimited commodity, will we actually have good software?

[ethbr1]

Depends on whether you think good software comes from good initial design (then yes, via the monkeys with typewriters path) or intentional feature evolution (then no, because that's a more artistic, skilled endeavor).

Anyone who lived through 90s OSS UX and MySpace would likely agree that design taste is unevenly distributed throughout the population.