Speaking from the IT side of things: this is not new to AI, but the author hits the nail on the head that general incompetence along with a dozen layers of abstraction has made quality a non-concern for developers the world over. People and companies both broadly just don’t care to build good products when cheap slop will sell at higher prices long enough for their RSUs to vest and the share price to rise.
I am sick and tired of the hand-waving dismissal of shitty software developers who don’t want to do the hard fucking work of writing performant software anymore. These people taking home $300k+ salaries leaning on vibe coding to game productivity metrics and letting others wipe their ass on their behalf isn’t just disgusting on a personal level, it should be intolerable by all the rest of us squandering our lives for lower pay and forced on-call schedules just to make sure they never have to be held accountable for their gobshite code.
I, like the author, am sick of it. Write better code, because I am beyond tired slaving away for a fraction of your pay in IT just to cover your ass.
This! In my experience it started well before 2018 that we left QA and ISO 25010 behind and I had to specialise in performance optimising software and hardware. By 2018 we were well downhill in terms of sheer number of bugs and perpetual emergency interventions. The amount of money we made by teaching customers how to performance- and resource-optimise their code and databases allowed me to retire in 2019. Which yeah. Since then, the situation even for me as a private user has gone further downhill: the endless bloat Microsoft alone distributes with every monthly update; the horrible amount of bugs in new games - even by big names like Blizzrd, EA - I'm confident in saying that they ship beta versions now - is, for me, an indicator that a problem like Y2K today would have extraordinary consequences. So yes, I understand being tired of it all, particularly in a work environment.