[ilrwbwrkhv]

There is also a big elephant in the room that we are sort of ignoring with the whole AI stuff, which is when flat design came about, a lot of the designers who weren't really good now suddenly had jobs because everybody could put a flat thing on the page and call it a "button".

Good designers still exist but they are simply crowded out.

The same is happening today with the AI generated apps. Most front ends now in another 10 years will be filled with AI generated apps. But good design and applications will be around but they will be crowded out.

And you see this in almost other industries as well. For example, architecture has simply gotten worse. A building from today looks much, much worse than let's say a building from even 300 years back.

So we will simply have worse software and worse performing software which breaks down all the time in the near future and we will all suffer but there is no solution out of this.

Things don't always get better.

[curiousnerdyboy]

100% SaaS will suffer the most, mostly big SaaS.

[Aeolun]

> A building from today looks much, much worse than let's say a building from even 300 years back

You don’t even have to go back that far. They still knew how to build decent buildings just 80-90 years ago. I think it all kinda changed after the Second World War. Maybe they needed to conserve money and build as much as possible?

[xboxnolifes]

I'm not sure how accurate it was in its argument for causality, but I recently saw a video arguing that architecture worsened from the invention of caulk for building sealant. With the ability to fill all gaps easily, buildings no longer needed to be designed and built with overlapping layers to prevent water and other elements getting in. This significantly reduced complexity and led to very simplified buildings.

[Aeolun]

On the argument that a bit of aesthetics is relatively minor if your building is otherwise super expensive?

[xboxnolifes]

The argument is that pre-caulk, the aestetics of a building came in pert due to design requirements. Those designs requirements disappeared post-caulk, as you can just fill gaps between any 2 panes with caulk. And with all things, we seem to regress to the lowest common denominator.