@nixCraft yeah, i figure there's two ways to play software these days.
option one, you put quality first, all the time, it is the core of everything.
option two, you compete with the entire world to have the sloppiest slop thrown out to the world the soonest and cheapest, erasing all your customer loyalty and competitive differentiation ... and then, your margins.
@worik @nixCraft see you say that, and maybe you can attract investment and make cashmoney at the IPO, and maybe even clean up later, but that's probabalistic chance at success at best and your firm is full of people from the slop culture; that's hard to change.
your competitors can LLM a service up just as well as you, agents can migrate your customers off your platform, agentic buyers will care little about the power of your brand, and your moat is all gone
I agree, but playing devil's advocate...
If you write secure reliable software you cannot attract investment and make cashmoney at the IPO. The AI slop merchants will eat your lunch.
In the end Free Software will triumph, but looking at the example of operating systems where the worst sell best, and the Free Software OSes are the best and sell worse, is informative
In the long run quality wins, in the long run we are all dead
nixCraft 🐧
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