alt Hacker NewsThe frequency with which I see contemporary apps updating (sometimes multiple times a day) says there's a change in culture that also makes professionals prone to mistakes.
I get that we'll never ship a perfect release, but if you have to push fixes once a day it seems you've lost perspective.
Vibe coding slopiness is more acceptable now because we've lowered our standards
Devs' newfound ability to patch on the fly is absolutely being overleveraged. It's a wonderful capability to have that can do wonders in terms of disaster mitigation, but it's clearly become a crutch and has resulted in a situation where software has become a horrific amalgamation of haphazardly-developed panic-patches, taking the classic "ball of mud" problem and putting it into overdrive.