Thanks OOP for putting words on what I’ve been feeling for months.
Were “incentivized” (read “threatened into”) pushing features quicker than humanly possible with no regard for quality, sustainability and proper ownership of the code to please one (1) stakeholder who had a barely thought out idea. The amount of tech debt in staggering, broken features come and go as the code is “rewritten” with each commit.
It’s completely unsustainable and the only ones who profit from it are the LLM providers. When the whole product collapses, the only one to suffers the losses are the company building that product and their clients. Their employees get fired because it’s somehow their fault. LLM providers get even richer because now the remaining employees burn through tokens to try and “fix” millions of nine of code nobody has ever thought out, written and reviewed.
Companies pivoting to “full AI” code are literally committing suicide, for the exclusive benefit of LLM providers. I get that that’s Anthropic’s and OpenAI’s plan all along. I just can’t understand the utter stupidity, hubris and amount of kool-aid drinking most CTOs are riding right now.
I would never buy a such a critical piece of equipment if it depended on an app. I’ve seen too many devices being rendered useless or crippled when their app disappears or worse, forces a subscription model. Meanwhile, I SSH into my Mikrotik router, as the gods intended.