Google announced that something like 25% of their code is AI generated now, and it’d be hilarious how much these companies have enshittified themselves into a cycle of constant self-owns except that we keep suffering for it too.
Like every google app and service is bad now. Search sucks. YouTube apps are bloated, have been crashing, and the algorithm is serving up just random stuff now. G Maps won’t stay open on my phone, and randomly minimizes itself. Gmail is out of space, full of newsletters, and also degrading in search.
Facebook is the same deal. I’ve been on it more recently because I need to track events and it’s all anyone in this city uses. Searching for the name of an event, which you’ve stated you’re going to, by it’s exact name, will find nothing, or an older version of the event from 4 years ago. The feed is 90% ads and sponsored posts, mostly videos. And the videos aren’t ads, they’re just random tiktok-wannabes about paint mixing or machining stuff. It’s utterly bizarre to be inundated with clickbait that desperately wants your attention for no reason.
I consider myself a pretty good engineer and it’s amazing how little these companies can accomplish with literally tens of thousands of developers. Its another of the great paradoxes of our times: individually, software devs must be among the least productive workers of all time, and yet as a group the profession (the computer itself really) has realized such astronomical productivity gains that we’re probably already past the point where anyone really needs to work full-time ever again.
Google announced that something like 25% of their code is AI generated now, and it’d be hilarious how much these companies have enshittified themselves into a cycle of constant self-owns except that we keep suffering for it too.
Like every google app and service is bad now. Search sucks. YouTube apps are bloated, have been crashing, and the algorithm is serving up just random stuff now. G Maps won’t stay open on my phone, and randomly minimizes itself. Gmail is out of space, full of newsletters, and also degrading in search.
Facebook is the same deal. I’ve been on it more recently because I need to track events and it’s all anyone in this city uses. Searching for the name of an event, which you’ve stated you’re going to, by it’s exact name, will find nothing, or an older version of the event from 4 years ago. The feed is 90% ads and sponsored posts, mostly videos. And the videos aren’t ads, they’re just random tiktok-wannabes about paint mixing or machining stuff. It’s utterly bizarre to be inundated with clickbait that desperately wants your attention for no reason.
I consider myself a pretty good engineer and it’s amazing how little these companies can accomplish with literally tens of thousands of developers. Its another of the great paradoxes of our times: individually, software devs must be among the least productive workers of all time, and yet as a group the profession (the computer itself really) has realized such astronomical productivity gains that we’re probably already past the point where anyone really needs to work full-time ever again.