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THE GREAT SOFTWARE QUALITY COLLAPSE: HOW WE NORMALIZED CATASTROPHE

techtrenches.substack.com14 min read

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Software quality is collapsing. The author cites examples like a calculator app leaking 32GB of RAM and AI-generated code containing many more vulnerabilities than human-generated code. Big Tech's response is to spend billions on infrastructure instead of addressing underlying engineering issues.