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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. brookst · 1790078955 · focus · HN ↗

      I’d love to see data. For my part the products I use seem to be moving faster, with more small fixes, accessibility better designed in, localization better (even if imperfect) and more rapid releases.

      I’m not sure Google, Apple, and Microsoft are the best barometers of AI impact on software engineering. They write software, but at such scale and with such ossified business practices that would expect them to be laggards in leveraging AI.

      And things like windows slow context menu are exactly where AI is less useful, because the problem is cruft and the requirment to maintain backwards compatibility with decades of first and third party apps written for older versions. Fixing that is a huge refactoring exercise which AI can do, but which is extremely complex and full of risk.

      Same with writing a net new OS: what do you want in the OS? The problem is requirements and market need, not code.

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