[dd8601fn]

Meta has four different implementations of the same page to create a “page” for your business… which is required to be able to advertise on any of their services.

Each one is broken, doesn’t have working error handling, and prevents you from giving them money. They all exist to insert the same record somewhere. Lost revenue, and they seem to have no idea.

Amazons flagship ios app has had at least three highly visible bugs, for years. They’re like thorns in my eye sockets, every time I use it. They don’t care.

These companies are working with BILLIONS of dollars in engineering resources, unlimited AI resources, and with massive revenue effects for small changes.

Sometimes the world just doesn’t make sense.

[f-serif]

It's just lazy engineering. They get assigned a task, they must implement it or fix it to keep their job. Proper implantation takes more knowledge, more research and more brain pressure.

AI could play a big rule here. Husky (git hook) but AI. It will score lazy engineering. You lazy implement enough times, you loose your job.

[dd8601fn]

I just can’t wrap my head around it.

Maybe there’s a reason Netflix makes you click on the ONE user profile on the account, repeatedly, even if it feels like sheer stupidity to their users. At least it’s not costing them revenue, directly.

Amazons ios app not properly handling state change after checkout, for years? Probably not directly costing them millions. Only second order disengagement.

But Walmart keeps pushing a thing you don’t want, because you looked at it once? Amazon solved this. It’s not a major fix, and it’s using a valuable slot that costs them money. Walmart just doesn’t fix it.

Meta refusing to take people’s advertising dollars because ALL of their page creation pages have unhandled breaking flows in them? That’s lost money for no reason at all. And you’re telling me they don’t realize how janky it is to try to maintain four implementations of that?

Apple App Store Connect and Ads platform? Don’t get me started.

Again, all with unlimited pools of the smartest people on earth, unlimited AI, and a billion people testing for them…

[monocasa]

I mean, the core issue here is that proper engineering just isn't valued.

Social capital just isn't given out to people that fix things in a lot of these companies, but instead those who ship a 1.0a.

On the management/product side, the inevitable issues are problem for another quarter. On the engineering side, it's a problem for the poor shmucks who didn't get to jump to the next big thing.

Neither of those groups instructionally care about the mess they leave in their wake, and such guardrails they'd perceive as antithetical to releasing the next broken but new, fancy feature.

[tedmiston]

they prioritize bugs based on what impacts the largest amount ($) of customers — fixing every bug of a huge complex project rarely makes sense if the impact of the bug on revenue is tiny