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Article: > How many people on Earth will truly understand how this all works? I feel this. And I think the software industry in general seems to have decided the answer is “No one does or will, and meh, we don’t care.” This is why every mysterious issue with every OS seems unsolvable. Every app is spewing random exceptions to the logs 100 times a second because in fact it does not just work together, most things barely work and nobody cares. We don’t get to have good software that works reliably anymore.

Like my phone that turns its ring volume to 100% every few days. It’s not a rogue Shortcut, cuz Shortcuts doesn’t even have that feature (only Media volume). No one will ever know why that occurs, because no one understands the whole stack from top to bottom. And in a way that’s the best case scenario with such a walled garden controlled by one “benevolent” dictator. Using all these packaging frameworks and libraries at once, no one will ever be able to make sense of some kinds of problems, because everyone is cargo-culting some large section of this stack of complexity, because a single person couldn’t hope to make sense of everything.