(this was mean to be a reply to the comment about rose-tinted nostalgia for Windows XP)

Everything used to be horrible.

There were a few gems of good UI and functionality but they were rare and either got snuffed out by bigger companies like Microsoft or bought out and then forgotten.

Now, everything is more horrible than it should be.

It's like airplanes: Just barely 100 years ago, nobody could even dream that a common person could fly across the world to anywhere within hours.

Now we have planes and spaceships but they cram you in like cattle to squeeze into tiny inhumane chairs for hours..

The biggest companies in the world with hundreds of employees and billions of dollars still can't fix their software.

Google is still anal about dark mode if you're not signed in. Some other major apps don't even have dark mode even though it's been almost a decade since major operating systems supported it.

YouTube still hinders iOS's picture-in-picture feature.

Facebook still doesn't have iPad-native versions of their apps.

There's so much shit in apps with millions of users that hasn't been fixed for years.

And goobers act as if AI could possibly make it worse.

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g-b-r an hour ago | parent [-]

> And goobers act as if AI could possibly make it worse

Which it does

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Razengan an hour ago | parent [-]

heh apt username

> Which it does

Not worse than humans have been doing on their own since forever.

I've been using AI to make private apps for my own personal use, and it's pretty amazing how quickly I can iterate to fix minor niggles and UI annoyances.. within minutes, while the app is running.

Meanwhile operating systems, YouTube, Facebook, Reddit, etc have such shit UX here and there for YEARS. You're telling me they can't fix it with all their employees that get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars?

	▲	g-b-r an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> heh apt username ? > Not worse than humans have been doing on their own since forever If it's not reviewed well (some people stopped even looking at the code) it can be immensely worse. And most people end up producing much more code with LLMs, quickly reducing how much of it they review; a lot have become fine with turning the interface upside down often just because it's easy, even if the new interface is worse and a lot buggier.