Meta has four different implementations of the same page to create a “page” for your business… which is required to be able to advertise on any of their services.
Each one is broken, doesn’t have working error handling, and prevents you from giving them money. They all exist to insert the same record somewhere. Lost revenue, and they seem to have no idea.
Amazons flagship ios app has had at least three highly visible bugs, for years. They’re like thorns in my eye sockets, every time I use it. They don’t care.
These companies are working with BILLIONS of dollars in engineering resources, unlimited AI resources, and with massive revenue effects for small changes.
Sometimes the world just doesn’t make sense.
they prioritize bugs based on what impacts the largest amount ($) of customers — fixing every bug of a huge complex project rarely makes sense if the impact of the bug on revenue is tiny
It's just lazy engineering. They get assigned a task, they must implement it or fix it to keep their job. Proper implantation takes more knowledge, more research and more brain pressure.
AI could play a big rule here. Husky (git hook) but AI. It will score lazy engineering. You lazy implement enough times, you loose your job.