The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe
The Apple Calculator leaked 32GB of RAM.Not used. Not allocated. Leaked. A basic calculator app is hemorrhaging more memory than most computers had a decade ago.Twenty years ago, this would have triggered emergency patches and post-mortems. Today, it's just another bug report in the queue.We've normalized software catastrophes to the point where a Calculator leaking 32GB of RAM barely makes the news. This isn't about AI. The quality crisis started years before ChatGPT existed. AI just weaponized...
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