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   feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Friday, 10-Jul-2026 03:46:24 JST feld
   The entire world already runs on the most dogshit quality code you'll never see because it's proprietary but it works and makes businesses successful so that's all that matters.
   
   If random people weren't allowed to look at code none of the current drama would really be happening.
   
   My wife has to use an application at work for updating patient records and everyone has been trained to "never press the Backspace key in the text input fields or it will corrupt the patient's record. Always go to the start of the word and use the Delete key."
   
   Worse than dogshit quality software right there, and they're paying like $10k/month for it and nobody will ever fix this. They're locked in now, it's not like they're going to just move to some new system handcrafted by an internet autist where every every memory allocation lovingly caressed. The man who owns the business will never understand or care. This is a minor employee training issue for them, not a giant red flag. Computers have been failing them their whole lives, errors happen, they just accept it and move on.
   
   So I say to you: go forth and create dogshit software for every possible underserved market that exists, make a ton of money doing it, and have a secure retirement. Nobody's going to hand you your future on a silver platter anyway.
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Friday, 10-Jul-2026 03:52:20 JST feld

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     Millions of people have made highly lucrative careers out of writing stupid proprietary software that is the worst code you've ever seen and they walk around like they're hot shit because they have something you don't: paying customers
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Friday, 10-Jul-2026 04:47:00 JST Phantasm

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     @feld Similarly, millions of people have made their careers revolve around fixing said software, especially for the inevitable Windows version update. Shitty proprietary software is a self-sustaining business in this regard.
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     ᴏᴏᴍ-ᴋɪʟʟᴇʀ: 333 (jae@mastodon.bsd.cafe)'s status on Friday, 10-Jul-2026 05:10:35 JST ᴏᴏᴍ-ᴋɪʟʟᴇʀ: 333

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     • Phantasm

     @feld @phnt i don't have the article to cite, but didn't we discuss the agency that's cleaning up the "ai slop" 🙄 via ai? the market seems ripe

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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Friday, 10-Jul-2026 05:10:36 JST feld

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     @phnt yep! It's a whole self-sustaining ecosystem
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Friday, 10-Jul-2026 05:11:08 JST Phantasm

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     @jae @feld I haven't read anything about that, but I suspect that it will be a market that will feed an entire generation. Similarly how legacy software is a lucrative business, detangling completely slopped software will probably also be similar.
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     ᴏᴏᴍ-ᴋɪʟʟᴇʀ: 333 (jae@mastodon.bsd.cafe)'s status on Friday, 10-Jul-2026 15:59:13 JST ᴏᴏᴍ-ᴋɪʟʟᴇʀ: 333

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     • Phantasm

     @phnt @feld tbh im planning to do this too. got my bucket and mop ready to go.

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