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We're not innovating, we're just forgetting slower

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139 points obscurette | 1 comments | 04 Jul 25 14:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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unyttigfjelltol ◴[04 Jul 25 16:34 UTC] No.44465911[source]▶
> (Google is less than helpful with a dumbed-down user interface that basically tells you that “something went wrong.")

This UI trend of denying access to under-the-hood complexity is deeply unsettling. It creates a cliff edge failure mechanism where the system (which often is essential) works and then suddenly doesn't. No warning approaching the failure state, no recourse on the far side, completely baffling how this became an industry standard.

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1. convolvatron ◴[04 Jul 25 17:25 UTC] No.44466343[source]▶
the best part is when you look at the from the perspective of composition. if I build a thing using complicated 'industry standard' components that are just supposed to work, then when something happens I'm pretty much lost. now take my thing, add some marketing about how it 'just works', and have someone else use it in a high level concatenation of other such functions and pretend it 'just works'.

now we are actually employing large numbers of people just to babysit these half-assed things, and everyone is fine with it because we all used 'industry standard' components, and thats really the best we can do isn't it. armies of on-call system resetters are just part of the picture now.