ben

It’s less the developer team that did it and more the shareholders and executive team that has turned the product to complete trash.

It’s so dumb, even with the AI stuff I wouldn’t care that much if it was just a new thing the OS could do if the rest of the thing was actually stable. But they seem to be allergic to doing some actual house cleaning and instead keep bolting things on.

The fact that the explorer can regularly completely freeze up nowadays or flat out crash is actually insane. That should be at the top of the priority list before anything else gets worked on. But instead they decided: let’s add a new keyboard shortcut to open a really laggy copilot chat interface.

It’s less the vibe coding and more: this is what happens when you have the developers do all the QA and fire the actual QA staff.

They’ve been screwing up the Windows updates since Windows 10, vibe coding wasn’t a thing at that point.

The NAND market is an effective monopoly that has been caught price fixing in the past. They desperately want to keep prices as high as they can so they tightly control supply to prevent having any excess product. This screws everyone over as soon as there’s a spike in demand that they failed to account for.

Instead of just keeping a consistent supply and allowing prices to drop from competition, we end up with a price rollercoaster that peaks every few years then crashes back down again. The severity is just higher than usual due to the higher demand from data centers.

The market desperately needs a new player that just consistently creates supply instead of playing stupid games, but the barrier to entry is too high.