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> And that seems valid to me: the average quality of software today seems to be worse than 10 years ago.

You don't remember Windows Vista? Windows ME?

I think you have that view because of survivor's bias. Only the good old software is still around today. There was plenty of garbage that barely worked being shipped 10 years ago.

palata on Dec 17, 2024 [–]

Let's think about this: smartphones are orders of magnitude faster today than they were 10 years ago, and yet websites load slower on average.

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