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AI Software Development – What Does The Data Say?
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It's obvious if you actually use software beyond the average literacy of a talking chimp. I use hundreds of apps across iphone, mac, and linux os's. Literally none of them have noticeably increased in quality, stability, or feature-set beyond their average between 1-5 years ago.
Mac and iphone appear to have more bugs and shittier quality control than at any other point in the last decade.
Quality software is getting harder and harder to find thanks to all the slop-abandonware being promoted by slop-content and slop-SEO on slop-enshittified search engines.
I notice far more idiocracy-grade errors in digital content, cx, business processes, product listings, etc than ever before.
Weather forecasts have gone to dogshit in the last 2 years. Even same-day forecasts can shift on a dime unpredictably. It's at the point where I check 3 apps. I never had a time where I woke up to 0% chance of rain and sunny, then looked outside to see rain. Not a sun shower. A rainy day several mm downpour.
Auto-generated subtitles are great for content that was never going to receive human attention, but they're clearly being used to replace humans. At least once a week I notice a major contextual error that completely alters the perception of the line/scene, and there's no way to submit corrections.
Art, culture, and knowledge are being actively corrupted, bastardized, and destroyed.
The future sucks, and is dumb as all fuck. Complete clown show run by criminals, rapists, pedophiles, scammers, and thieves.
Supposing you're right that weather forecasts have gone to dogshit (I'm skeptical because your evidence is anecdotal), there may be reasons beside AI for that.
Also just found this https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-08/australian-weather-forecast-under-threat-from-us-cuts/105611736
Yeah I was gonna add the weather part could be entirely explained by climate change and fascisms war on science, but forgot. Weather forecasting is actually one area where AI should far exceed what humans could ever possibly achieve without it. It is impossible for humans to process and adapt to the changing patterns across hundreds or thousands of variables interacting with each other in real time.
I'd never heard of the 5G impact, so thanks for that. I consider it unlikely unless there were a significant change in 5G usage during the last year. 5G has covered most Australian major cities since 2021, and 5g coverage is essentially non-existent outside of populated areas (90% or more of Australia).
Yes it blows my mind everyone can't see all the historically perfectly fine software starting to crumble to dust
The big one for me was rsync, maintainer started vibecoding it and the first release with those changes had a huge amount of regressions.
Yet it keeps getting held up as an example of "using AI tools properly".