alt Hacker NewsI think you and I align closer to Robert Pirsig's ideas on quality. It feels worse, so it is and you can't really measure it.
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justonceokay • today at 2:27 PM
Funny to see this comment here. I was just thinking this morning whether the socratics or the sophists would be more alighted with conversational AI
Buttons840 • today at 2:13 PM
I can measure the number of times my computer blue-screens and just dies. It used to happen all the time, and now it never does.
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kranke155 • today at 12:44 PM
You can measure UX. Just ask 100 people "does it feel worse? did you like it better 5 years ago?"
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Bit didn't it also feel bad back then, you just forgot about it and has a rose-tinted view of the past?
Like software used to crash, were single-threaded and constantly frozen. How many times did you have to issue Ctrl+alt+del vs today? Even UIs were constantly out of sync with the underlying data, I would even go as far to claim that reactive frameworks like react cut down a big category of software bugs.