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627467 | 2 days ago

The frequency with which I see contemporary apps updating (sometimes multiple times a day) says there's a change in culture that also makes professionals prone to mistakes.

I get that we'll never ship a perfect release, but if you have to push fixes once a day it seems you've lost perspective.

Vibe coding slopiness is more acceptable now because we've lowered our standards

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cosmic_cheese|2 days ago

Devs' newfound ability to patch on the fly is absolutely being overleveraged. It's a wonderful capability to have that can do wonders in terms of disaster mitigation, but it's clearly become a crutch and has resulted in a situation where software has become a horrific amalgamation of haphazardly-developed panic-patches, taking the classic "ball of mud" problem and putting it into overdrive.