But software seems to be getting slower and less user friendly by the hour.

mortenjorck an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Both can be true.

AI SDLCs simply compress the same incentives that were always there: you could invest in optimizing your architecture and improving your UX, neither of which make for big bullet points that close sales, or you could invest in new features that do.

The investment that was previously measured in months of developer time may now be measured in token spend across days, but the underlying dynamics shaping where it’s directed haven’t changed.

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stopIiiiit an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Because it's not built with client side optimization in mind any more. It's built with circular investment in mind.

Big tech funds startups (through obfuscated legal and financial means) and that funding goes straight back into big tech cloud hosting and SaaS services.

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rochak an hour ago | parent [-]

Isn't this just enshittification? Where money is the driver, enshittification is just bound to happen.

	▲	stopIiiiit an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		If that euphemism makes sense of it for you, sure.
	▲	an0malous an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The private equity and venture capitalist playbook has always been enshittification: you either take an existing high quality product or innovate one subsidized with investment capital, then once it’s time to flip the business you 10x the price and cut costs (which usually cuts quality). AI is the perfect tool for enshittification, because it can get you 80% of a finished product with a fraction of the costs it used to take, but the last 20% takes 2-5x times longer. So you just ignore the last 20%, make it up in volume by producing 100 mediocre products instead of 1 great one. And that’s basically the state of the tech industry right now. I don’t think it’ll be like this forever, I think there will be better ways to collaborate with AI rather than wholesale delegation and prompting. But for now we’re stuck with mass enshittifation. People who have no sense of quality, taste, or craftsmanship don’t even understand, they skim over some generic blog post from Claude that takes five paragraphs to say one thing or watch the Coca Cola AI ad and don’t event notice it’s a different train in every shot and they think it’s so amazing. I hope this isn’t just the way things are now.