I WORK IN TECH and over the last 5 years, my general level of confidence in software to function as intended has...

[hearth@plush.city]

@earthshine I don't know if we count as working in tech

we do hardware and *extremely* avoid software, which is not the tech most people think of when talking about working in tech
-F

[earthshine@masto.hackers.town]

@Hearth its tech adjacent enough i guess it depends on how familiar or opinionated you are about it.

[mms@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@earthshine What confidence?

[tommorris@mastodon.social]

@earthshine it was low to start with, and it keeps plumbing new depths

[locha@fediscience.org]

@earthshine And it’s not due to what I saw; it’s due to software quality degrading (at least outside of FOSS)

[justin@mastodon.tacoma.community]

@earthshine
I'd even say "strongly decreased"

[earthshine@masto.hackers.town]

@MxAlba now I think i need to run this on like Instagram or something to see the difference in sample bias lol

[furrybeta@shark.community]

@twobiscuits @earthshine Lotus 1-2-3, and Ashton-Tate Multimate and dBase. Worked great on an Intel 286 with 2MB ram

[tokamak@mastodon.art]

@earthshine Gamedev isn't tech compared to most answering this poll, but seeing people with experience getting discarded when the C-suite didn't make their millions has put us where we are now in the industry, and it suuucks.

[disorderlyf@todon.eu]

@earthshine tbf, I think certain types of software have been hit harder than others. The sheer number of pieces of software I consider so unreliable that I will actively encourage people not to use it has gone way up since early 2021. The better players are still net trustworthy, but less so.

Also probably worth noting that while I don't work in tech, I know a decent amount about software development compared to non-technical people and the one time I felt confident enough to apply to work in tech was when thousands of people being laid off became the norm.

[hecks@slime.computer]

@earthshine My question of "As who intended?" leans me toward "no change"