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The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe (techtrenches.substack.com)
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[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 7 points 1 month ago

Modern software is built on towers of abstractions, each one making development "easier" while adding overhead:

Today’s real chain: React → Electron → Chromium → Docker → Kubernetes → VM → managed DB → API gateways. Each layer adds “only 20–30%.” Compound a handful and you’re at 2–6× overhead for the same behavior.

That's how a Calculator ends up leaking 32GB. Not because someone wanted it to—but because nobody noticed the cumulative cost until users started complaining.

Man, this is so true. What sucks even more is that so many devs now don't know how to build anything BUT this stack.