Of course they are not well thought out. The biggest limiting factor on software quality has always been PM and executive prioritization. If they decide that you should build garbage anti-user features, that's what you'll build for them.
Letting SWEs execute on that prioritization faster was never going to get us better software, it was just going us more enshittification faster.
AI improving productivity is great, except that the C-suite controlling where that productivity goes are people that are consistently ranking in the top of the 'Never should be trusted with a lot of power' list. All they want is to make more paperclips.
Letting SWEs execute on that prioritization faster was never going to get us better software, it was just going us more enshittification faster.
AI improving productivity is great, except that the C-suite controlling where that productivity goes are people that are consistently ranking in the top of the 'Never should be trusted with a lot of power' list. All they want is to make more paperclips.