studies show a clear trend – output is up (more code, more commits, bigger diffs), but outcomes don’t reflect that trend. If anything, the average team is taking longer to ship worse software
studies show a clear trend – output is up (more code, more commits, bigger diffs), but outcomes don’t reflect that trend. If anything, the average team is taking longer to ship worse software
Great summary.
It’s obvious if you actually use software beyond the average literacy of a talking chimp. I use hundreds of apps across iphone, mac, and linux os’s. Literally none of them have noticeably increased in quality, stability, or feature-set beyond their average between 1-5 years ago.
Mac and iphone appear to have more bugs and shittier quality control than at any other point in the last decade.
Quality software is getting harder and harder to find thanks to all the slop-abandonware being promoted by slop-content and slop-SEO on slop-enshittified search engines.
I notice far more idiocracy-grade errors in digital content, cx, business processes, product listings, etc than ever before.
Weather forecasts have gone to dogshit in the last 2 years. Even same-day forecasts can shift on a dime unpredictably. It’s at the point where I check 3 apps. Until this year, I never had a time where I woke up to 0% chance of rain and sunny, then looked outside to see rain. Not a sun shower. A rainy day hour-long downpour.
Auto-generated subtitles are great for content that was never going to receive human attention, but they’re clearly being used to replace humans. At least once a week I notice a major contextual error that completely alters the perception of the line/scene, and there’s no way to submit corrections.
Art, culture, and knowledge are being actively corrupted, bastardized, and destroyed.
The future simultaneously sucks while being dumb as all fuck. Complete clown show run by the idiot criminals, rapists, pedophiles, scammers, and thieves.
Supposing you’re right that weather forecasts have gone to dogshit (I’m skeptical because your evidence is anecdotal), there may be reasons beside AI for that.
I was gonna say - the bulk of weather forcasting is done by governments. Commercial weather channels/sites/apps draw from these predictions and give them a nice interface, and sometimes apply some proprietary prediction algorithm (eg, a lot of commercial weather services bump up chance of rain, because people are angrier when it rains when you said it wouldnt, versus doesnt rain when you said it would).
But I wouldnt expect government forecasts to have changed due to AI tools. Except maybe in the US due to the DOGE debacle - but even then, why fuck with it?
Yes it blows my mind everyone can’t see all the historically perfectly fine software starting to crumble to dust