JA WestenbergI want to call this the Cruft Threshold: the point at which the cost of managing, evaluating, and ignoring new tools exceeds the benefit any individual tool provides.
We crossed it somwhere around the fourteenth app that added a "summarize with AI" button.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-unbearable-weight-of-cruft/
The unbearable weight of cruft
In 1958, the economist John Kenneth Galbraith coined the term "the dependence effect" to describe something he'd noticed about postwar America: once production capacity outstrips genuine human need, you have to manufacture the desire for things nobody actually wanted. Factories that could make ten million widgets needed ten million people
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