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Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?

(martinalderson.com)
413 points martinald | 1 comments | 08 Dec 25 19:00 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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an0malous ◴[08 Dec 25 20:05 UTC] No.46196925[source]▶
Then why is all my software slower, buggier, and with a worse UX?
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1. Covenant0028 ◴[09 Dec 25 15:11 UTC] No.46205751[source]▶
To reinforce that point: we've got the world's most prominent AI promoting company (MSFT), that has finally realized that Windows Explorer is too slow to start.

And this company, with all the formidable powers of AI behind them, can find no way to optimize that other than pre loading the app in memory. And that's for a app that's basically a GUI for `ls`