Tyranny of the Marginal User: why software gets worse, not better, over time
Tyranny of the Marginal User: why software gets worse, not better, over time
nothinghuman.substack.com The Tyranny of the Marginal User
why consumer software gets worse, not better, over time
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Disgustingly accurate. Makes me despise working in the startup field sometimes
Open source software is the only future I see.
That resonates well with something that I often talk about, on how some developers seem to assume that "user" = "that stupid thing lacking human-like intelligence". And that this becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy because eventually only users fitting this assumption will use that software.