Folks,
Stack Overflow is testing a new design:
https://beta.stackoverflow.com/questions
My proposition — we should coin a new term for a subset of enshittification for this new trend of turning every UI into an AI chat
Folks,
Stack Overflow is testing a new design:
https://beta.stackoverflow.com/questions
My proposition — we should coin a new term for a subset of enshittification for this new trend of turning every UI into an AI chat
My term for this is encrapsulation

Encapsulation is a common programming term to describe hiding or preventing access to details of a structure to make it easier to use correctly, reason about it, and reduce bugs. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encapsulation_(computer_programming)
En*crap*sulation is then the technique of wrapping something that works in a layer of AI (crap) and, while it also hides details, it generally makes the wrapped thing more or less useless.
I suggested it in thread a few years ago specifically about enshittification related neologism, but it seems folks have been using the term outside of AI examples to just mean wrapping up bad code or adding a bad wrap to good code.
@nikunashi, thanks for the explanation
Yeah, I see how it can be tempting to use this term to refer to general behaviour rather than specifically AI related