Is anyone else noticing that software just... doesn't work right anymore? Every single booking system I've tried to use in the last week has had a serious revenue-affecting bug (airline, cab reservation, temporary rental, doctor appointment). Two of them were time zone bugs, one was a form field validation bug on a required field, the last was "you can't get an assigned seat unless you call us"
@vaurora During the pandemic, money was cheap and nobody cared if programmers worked from home. It was a golden age where companies paid top dollar to contractors like me to add new features and solve technical debt.
Then interest rates went up.
Now, when the decision comes down to whether a company is going to hire an expensive programmer to fix its problems or pay its CEO a bonus, we all know which direction it'll go.
