> buggy, as they were 4-5 years ago

I wish!

The quality of commercial software has really gone downhill the past decade. Some of it may be AI, but it has likely more to do with the fact that fewer and fewer want to pay for QA.

On the endless framework treadmill, money is better spent going forward and changing things.

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wvenable 2 hours ago | parent [-]

The quality of everything has gone downhill -- software is just part of that trend. Everything is about extracting as much value as possible for as little cost as possible. We've optimized everything, including software development, to that. Quality requires a level of care that society is no longer able to achieve.

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svieira 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I recently re-read Venus, Inc. and the number of times that the satire didn't hit because it read too close to our current reality was quite depressing.

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xorcist 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

People say that, but it doesn't hold up. We spend more money than ever before on software development. Just not on quality. There is something else going on here.

	▲	wvenable 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You'll need to backup the statement that we spend more money than ever on the same quantity of software but not getting more quality.