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1. torben-friis · 1790026444 · focus · HN ↗

   Here's my constant question:

   Everyone's going so fast that they keep hitting walls. Review, CI, product asking for things, whatever.

   Why have we not seen an improvements in products?

   While every post and thread feels like a 90's wall street office, the new android and iphone ship with fewer features than usual. No indie guys come up with a linux-sized alternative OS. Switch 2 remains unhacked. Windows takes 3 seconds to show the right click menu.

   Is everyone just running full speed in circles or something?

   1. inglor_cz · 1790067381 · focus · HN ↗

      So, my 2 cents: we are mostly using AI to analyze and fix things in our codebase that were hard to fix manually. Rare race conditions. Extra unit tests. Things that just didn't pass the effort+cost/gain ratio before.

      The quality definitely improved, but our products were usable before, only not perfect. The improvement is mostly on the margin. Instead of crashing twice a week, the app crashes twice a month. A communication session won't fail in two hours, but maybe in two days. (But the average session in the real world was < 20 minutes anyway.) Some UI elements that were not necessary, but are nice to have.

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