Why tech platforms start to work worse... Enshittification

[William Gaatjes]

Over time everybody notices that the smart device wants more and more of your attention.
That should be less of you attention, because it is supposed to be a smartphone. Higher efficiency when it comes to useable time.
Look at the larger desktop pc builds os versions. Constantly notifying, clinging onto you.

This documentary is about Enshittification, en what that really means.
There is also a book by Cory Doctorow who coined the term : Enshittification.

There are multiple words we can all think of : Enshittification, platform defecation , crapform decay.

The documentary is in English :
Small excerpt from documentary (10:20)
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Lets take nurses.
To exploit desparate labor, meaning if you really desperate for money you will be automatically payed less, because you have no choice anyway, the databroker takes care of that...
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[William Gaatjes]

That is an interesting thought : AI assisted programming, pushed by employers, to prevent that (employees) experienced programmers form a union to protect their interests.
Because hey, with AI chatbots everybody can program. The AI bubble being used by the employers to force experienced programmers not to form a union to protect themselves from nasty managers (read employers).

 

[William Gaatjes]

17:40
Reverse engineering made illegal. A law made by the USA. And forced upon the EU as well. Nice free market functioning here .
Instead of having a liberal free market, the USA uses import tariffs to control the EU to protect a few big tech companies.

 

[nakedfrog]

That is an interesting thought : AI assisted programming, pushed by employers, to prevent that (employees) programmers form a union to protect their interests.
Because hey, with AI chatbots everybody can program. The AI bubble being used by the employers to force experienced programmers not to form a union to protect themselves from nasty managers (read employers).

Programmers have (generally speaking) had the ability to form a union since well before this wave of AI, and haven't because they were typically more able to dictate the terms of their employment (based on what I've read in the past).
You're referring to what I believe is called "vibe coding", which can produce a functional product, the problem comes in when there's an issue and nobody actually knows how it works.

 

[William Gaatjes]

Programmers have (generally speaking) had the ability to form a union since well before this wave of AI, and haven't because they were typically more able to dictate the terms of their employment (based on what I've read in the past).
You're referring to what I believe is called "vibe coding", which can produce a functional product, the problem comes in when there's an issue and nobody actually knows how it works.

I think that now since the AI programming chatbot is being pushed so much, i see it everywhere. I tried it myself just for interest , but i noticed that to write good code, the person in question must know what the code does and how it works.
Still you have to use your brain and think of all situations.
Let's name as example creating a website. When the website is finished an ethical hacker can the website check for leaks and programming errors.
If data is being stored , we get front end stuff and backoffice stuff. All code that needs to be checked by an ethical hacker for sure. Even more so than with tradional written code.
If not. That can be a very dangerous situation.

Vibe coding : Indeed . Nobody knows and then there has to be reserved a lot of work hours for experienced programmers to find out what is exactly going on.
There goes the profit for the upcoming months.

 

[jpiniero]

I think that now since the AI programming chatbot is being pushed so much

AI is being pushed so much because of stonks.