The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe

https://techtrenches.substack.com/p/the-great-software-quality-collapse

• We’ve normalized software catastrophes to the point where a Calculator leaking 32GB of RAM barely makes the news

• AI just weaponized existing incompetence.

• We’ve created a perfect storm: tools that amplify incompetence, used by developers who can’t evaluate the output, reviewed by managers who trust the machine more than their people.

• We’ve been pretending electricity is infinite. It’s not.

• If your app uses 10x more resources than last year for the same functionality, that’s regression, not progress.