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The enshittification will come for the software engineers themselves eventually, because so many businesses out there only have their shareholders in mind and not their customers, and if a broken product or a promise of a product is enough to boost the stock then why bother investing in the talent to build it properly?

Look at Google and Facebook - absolute shithouse services now that completely fail to meet the basic functionality they had ~20 years ago. Google still rakes in billions rendering ads in the style of a search engine and Facebook the same for rendering ads in the format of a social news feed. Why even bother with engineering anything except total slop?



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