The problem of shitty software is you because you pay for this shit
I&#x27;ve thought for a decade+ that as soon as computers stopped getting faster there would be a return to people spending the effort to build more efficient software. It absolutely costs companies real money to build slow software quickly now that the common paradigm is buying machine time on AWS.<p>But I&#x27;m beginning to think I might be wrong, things just continue to get more bloated, and people continue to use it. Some of it is the price. A skype update that now burns a whole CPU core and 400MB ram is still acceptable because its _FREE_.<p>Long term I suspect I might be right, companies that can run their chat app on 30 servers, vs 3000 will have a competitive edge. Whether I will be around in the decades this will take to shake out is another question.