Enshittification Of Software

Software bloat Tech industry Dark patterns Subscription-model Feature creep Software decay Tech dystopia Product management User experience Software lifecycle

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Enshittification Of Software

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A pig wallowing in mud with "O,RLY?" at the top is the perfect metaphor for modern software development. What starts as elegant code inevitably turns into bloated, subscription-based garbage swimming in a sea of dark patterns and unnecessary features. Remember when apps were just... apps? Now they're "experiences" that demand your firstborn child and lifetime data rights. The "O,RLY?" is that perfect sarcastic response when some PM tells you "users want this" while shoving another analytics package into your once-beautiful codebase. The circle of software life: useful → profitable → ruined. Tale as old as time.

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