My concern for the AI era, or at least this phase of it, is that a generation is being taught that "close enough" is just fine. Take @AnthropicAI for example. Text wrapping in Claude Code has been broken for weeks. Superfluous spaces appear on the left edge. One engineer to another: you know its an out by one error. I refused to believe that nobody has noticed this. The shtick they are selling is that AI can fix this kind of thing. Either they tried to prompt a fix, and Claude ain't good enough to fix an out-by-one error. Or they haven't attempted it because it is "close enough". It can't be the case that AI is only good enough if we lower our standards. It can't. I'm well aware I have both feet firmly planted in my "grumpy old man" phase of life...

I like to think that we’re in a constant battle of done vs perfect, and those of us that like getting things as close to “perfect” as possible are currently losing the battle. I expect the pendulum to swing again once we start seeing high quality software being preferred, but it’s rough atm.

@dreamsofcode_io @willmcgugan @AnthropicAI I don’t know if that is actually a pendulum to be honest. All the development is driven by business and business doesn’t care about perfect. Sure the high quality might become important for the so called “bug free” but always under the good enough umbrella

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@dreamsofcode_io @willmcgugan @AnthropicAI my previous work i used to say 80% of the effort goes in the 20% of the polish, and it really makes a difference even if people don’t see it at first

@dreamsofcode_io @willmcgugan @AnthropicAI Being able to align text neatly to the left is somewhere before "done" and leagues away from "perferct".

@dreamsofcode_io @willmcgugan @AnthropicAI There's a continuous trend upward for SW quality: bug density always goes down. But perceived quality oscillates because SW size & complexity goes up and sometimes that's the stronger factor. AI is a rare exception though where Q can go down because of lowered standards.

@dreamsofcode_io @willmcgugan @AnthropicAI 💯. Trying to asymptomatically approach perfection is what made the imperfect state sustainable. Now we are just accepting broken and approaching unsustainable levels of brokenness very quickly.