> Problem is we've taken the idea of "minimum viable product" too far. People are saying "Doesn't have to be perfect, just has to work." I think most people agree. But with the current state of things? I disagree that things even work. We're so far away from the question of optimization. It's bad enough that there are apps that require several gigs to just edit a 30kb document but FFS we're living in a world where Windows Hello crashes Microsoft Outlook. It's not the programs are ugly babies that could be better, they are monstrosities begging to be put to death.
LOL. OMG that was beautiful. It almost feels like we are de-evolving software to a state where shit is going to stop working bad. I know this is not full of facts, but this take reminds me of Jonathan Blow's video "Preventing the Collapse of Civilization"[0] Where he talks about how code runs worse than it ever has and I think he was arguing that civilization is collapsing before our eyes in slow time.
[0]: https://youtu.be/pW-SOdj4Kkk?si=LToItJb1Cv-GgB4q&t=1089
Good talk. I did something similar to him and all that happened is everyone was just saying I'm making a lot out of nothing. They're right that each thing was "nothing" but the problem is that this is a non-trivial number of "nothings" happening every day...
Honestly, I think the problem is that it's a Lemon Market[0]. Lemon markets thrive when there is asymmetric information. When a customer cannot tell the difference between a good product (peach) and a bad product (lemon). All it takes is a bunch of tech illiterate people... not sure where we'll find those...
On your video, funny thing. When I was in my PhD I had a very hard time publishing because I was building models that were much smaller, required less data, but got similar performance. Reviewers just looked at the benchmark like "not SOTA? lol". I've seen tons of great papers solving similar problems constantly get rejected. As a reviewer I frequently defended works like that as well as works that had good ideas but just didn't have enough GPU power. It was really telling...
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons
[P.S.] A nice solution I found for the pasting problem he mentioned (and in various forms) is that I first paste the text into the url bad or search bar then copy that and then paste. {<c-k>,<c-l>}<c-v><c-a><c-c>. Works 98% of the time every time.