Post #589192
2026-02-26 00:10 UTC
Vibe check: is software getting worse? Or does it just feel like it's getting worse because more things depend on software (which has always been bad), and my exposure to software-being-bad has simply increased?
This particular post is prompted by a notification that the door code system at my child's preschool is glitching out, letting some parents in but not others. But this has been on my mind for some time.
Another example: the amount of times I find myself rebooting something just to get it working again is on an upswing, after reaching a local minimum several years ago.
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@eamon@social.coop 2026-02-26 00:15
You might think you know where I'm going with this, but surprise! I actually think most of the blame lies with the widespread adoption of CI/CD pipelines, and the manner in which this programming philosophy has trickled down to non-website programming. E.g., every program that tells you to pipe curl output to bash or updates itself (rather than depend on a package manager or manually downloaded installers). Making it easier to fix bugs in production has resulted in more bugs in production!
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@magsol@quinnwitz.house 2026-02-26 00:28
@eamon My uninformed, all-vibes opinion is “both” software is getting worse AND there’s more of it. Sincerely, a software dev who has more CI/CD infra than actual prod code to be tested.