it's always both fun and depressing when a new engineer wakes up to how "everything is terrible" in the tech industry: http://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/
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and here's a rebuttal that's even more depressing: users don't care that "everything is terrible", so in late capitalism, there's no pressure to fix it https://rakhim.org/2018/09/re-software-disenchantment/
@robey Also, truly optimized software is very expensive