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Eh I think its self-correcting problem

Companies will face the maintenance and availability consequences of these tools but it may take a while for the feedback loop to close

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Unfortunately, I think the lesson from recent history seems to be that outside of highly-regulated industries, customers and businesses will accept terrible quality as long as it's cheap.

True but there is a limit, there are still levels of quality

Levels of enshittification, more often than not.

Yes, every slack is optimized out of systems. If something has an ounce more quality than would suffice to obtain the same profit, it must be cut out. It's an inefficiency. A quality overhang. If people buy it even if it's crap, then the conclusion is that it has to be crap, else money is left on the table. It's a large scale coordination issue. This gives us a world where everything balances exactly near the border where it just barely works, for just barely enough time.

Nah, there is a quality floor that consumers are willing to accept. Once you get below that, where it's actually affecting their lives in a meaningful way, it will self-correct as companies will exploit the new market created for quality products.

Every problem is self-correcting in that some new normal will emerge. Either through acceptance or because something is changed.

It’s very hard to say right now what happens at the other side of this change right now.

All these new growing pains are happening in many companies simultaneously and they are happening at elevated speed. While that change is taking place it can be quite disorienting and if you want to take a forward looking view it can be quite unclear of how you should behave.

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