Ask HN: Why is software quality always decreasing?
I don’t really agree with your premise. Software quality wasn’t pristine a few decades ago. It wasn’t hard to find messy codebases, apps that barely worked, and developers who simply fumbled their way through code until something compiled.<p>If anything, it feels like common softest quality has trended upwards as software engineering learning materials have become more widely and freely available across the internet and we have so many more open-source projects to learn from.<p>> The one thing that's been pretty consistent is excessive technical complexity (aka tech debt).<p>Technical complexity and tech debt are two entirely different things. Do you think it’s possible that you’re simply missing the “good old days” when computers did less, Software expectations were lower, and it was possible for a tiny team to completely understand and operate a useful software package by themselves?