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Tyranny of the Marginal User: why software gets worse, not better, over time (nothinghuman.substack.com)
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[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

Disgustingly accurate. Makes me despise working in the startup field sometimes

[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

Open source software is the only future I see.

[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

That resonates well with something that I often talk about, on how some developers seem to assume that "user" = "that stupid thing lacking human-like intelligence". And that this becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy because eventually only users fitting this assumption will use that software.