It's a complete takeover of technically incompetent management that feels like it can finally execute their ideas to the fullest instead of relying on those pesky swengs with their obstructions, complaints and problems. We'll soon get the management utopia everywhere.

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mohamedkoubaa 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Principal engineer balks at bad UX when the PM should know better (it's their job)

2023: Ah well I guess we can't do it

2025: you're fired. Hey kid we hired two weeks ago, implement bad idea please

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palata 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

To be fair, it was already done by bad managers long before.

	▲	hirako2000 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I saw a trend of UX/UI designers coming with practice which I knew better were wrong. But they insisted. E.g hijack brosser native controls. Will never know whether they passed along some manager/PM commandements or were just incompetent.
	▲	coldtea 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		With some resistance. Now they do it far more often.

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brazukadev 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That's how I got my first opportunity 20 years ago

	▲	mohamedkoubaa 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Don't hate the player hate the game I guess
	▲	conartist6 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		:'D

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xp84 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It wasn’t AI that brought us Apple’s gray on slightly-lighter-gray UI standards, nor the 10,000,000 ••• menus that have infested every webapp in the past 10 years as an alternative to thoughtful UI design. We humans made everything shitty before we made AI.

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iugtmkbdfil834 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Maybe, but at least the 10,000,000 options were there instead deemed that they are not to be used by those pesky users. And now its they are not just hidden. They are simply not there.

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drivers99 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Apple’s gray on slightly-lighter-gray UI standards

It's a tangential point, but I turned on System Settings -> Accessibility -> Display -> Increase Contrast (the on/off option, not Display Contrast) and now at least the windows are outlined sharply.

	▲	ozzymuppet 43 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		OMG this is wonderful! Thank you.

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befictious 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Good thing we trained our fortune teller calculators on all that historic shittiness!

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coldtea 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Guns and bombs also didn't create war. But they did made it way more lethal.

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xnx 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

On the other hand, no one to place the blame on if management does it themselves.

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digitaltrees 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Bring on the feature creep and epic down time

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morpheos137 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Perennial HN trope: all bad tech evolutions are management's fault. Engineers are flawless paragons of technical purity.

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panny 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Aren't you guys glad there are no programmers gatekeeping programming with their "morals" and "etiquette"? Any marketer with an LLM can update the programming tool now. AI really levels the playing field and it's time for pesky programmers to get off their high horse, don't you think? :)