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The evolution of most products / product features:
1. Value creation
2. Enshittification
3. Death

Case in point: VS Code’s automatic Markdown links when pasting URLs on selected text.

1. Originally, the feature added value as it facilitated a common pattern by heuristically detecting user intent with a very high success rate.

2. The success rate of the heuristic plummeted as it expanded beyond initial cases.

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