[ansmithz42]

You're not alone in this feeling. I left the industry because of the "trendiness" or "shiny object syndrome". Then put on top of that the change from serving people to spying on people and that was all for me.

[amelius]

It's happening everywhere, not just computing. E.g. there was a thread about the decline of the quality of dental care a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31790226

Greed is taking over.

[barry-cotter]

It’s not about the decline in the quality of dental care. It’s about dishonesty. There’s no implication that things were better before and people used to be honest. Things weren’t better before. We just know they suck now.