Software Sucks Now

Lets keep vibe coding, I bet it will help.

As a QA professional this is why you need QA, but as we love to chase short term benefits this is the result of it. You reap what you sow.

That PS beep was crazy, I thought Theo saying PS turn on my PS. lol 😅

in 10 yrs we will be paying 10x to engineers to just do plain OOP again

Linux is 35 years old. Is it worse today than in 1992 or even 2002? Absolutely not! GNU is 40 years old. Is it worse than 20 years ago? I don’t think so. GCC has kept up with a shitload of standard updates, works reliably and gives MUCH more helpful compilation errors than back in the late 00s. I obviously agree that FLOSS software that focuses on specific tasks are superior to proprietary megaapps that keep expanding (I’m old enough to remember ICQ and MSN).

The Cloudflare bug should have been caught by a canary deployment. That is a bigger fail than that unwarranted unwrap().

Theo: "I'm tired boss..."

“The Thirty Million Line Problem” by Casey Muratori talks about this issue of enlarging software, if you haven’t already it’s a great watch. Good video!

Basically the problem is everything is turning into Adobe software. Old software on life support held together by scotch tape.

So essentially, back to the original Unix/Linux philosophy from 1974: - "Do one thing only, but do it well"