Now that generative AI products are becoming more widely used, it's a little depressing how folks don't seem to view the world with a broad historical context.

The "AI effect" on the world has many similarities to previous events and in many ways changes very little about how the world works.

> I'm terrified of the good enough to ship—and I'm terrified of nobody else caring.

For almost every product/service ever offered, it was possible to scale the "quality" of the offering while largely keeping the function or outcome static. In fact, lots of capitalistic activity is basically a search for the cheapest and fastest way to accomplish a minimum set of requirements. This leads to folks (including me!!) to lament the quality of certain products/services.

For example, it's possible to make hiking boots that last a lot longer than others. But if the requirement is to have it last for just 20 miles, it's better to pay less for one that won't last as long.

Software is the same way. Most users just absolutely do not know about, care about, or worry about security, privacy, maintainability, robustness, or a host of other things. For some reason this is continually terrifying and shocking to many.

There is nothing surprising here, it's been this way for many years and will continue.

Obviously there are exceptions, but for the most part it's best to assume the above.