I’m a huge user of AI coding tools but I feel like there has been some kind of a zeitgeist shift in what is acceptable to release across the industry. Obviously it’s a time of incredibly rapid change and competition, but man there is some absolute garbage coming out of companies that I’d expect could do better without much effort. I find myself asking, like, did anyone even do 5 minutes of QA on this thing?? How has this major bug been around for so long?
“It’s kind of broken, maybe they will fix it at some point,” has become a common theme across products from all different players, from both a software defect and service reliability point of view.
I mean it's like, really they don't even need agentic AI or whatever, they could literally just employ devs and it wouldn't make a difference
like, they'll drop $100 billion on compute, but when it comes to devs who make their products, all of a sudden they must desperately cut costs and hire as little as possible
to me it makes no sense from a business perspective. Same with Google, e.g. YouTube is utterly broken, slow and laggy, but I guess because you're forced to use it, it doesn't matter. But still, if you have these huge money stockpiles, why not deploy it to improve things? It wouldn't matter anyways, it's only upside
I don’t think they’re even saving much on vibe coding it, given how many tokens they claim they’re using. I know the token cost to them is much, much lower than the token cost to us, but it still has a cost in terms of gpus running.
Plus it’s not something we can replicate since we don’t have access to infinite tokens, so it’s not even a good dogfooding case study.
“It’s kind of broken, maybe they will fix it at some point,” has become a common theme across products from all different players, from both a software defect and service reliability point of view.