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Ask HN: Why is software quality collapsing? (Apple Calculator leaks 32GB RAM)

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I've been tracking software quality metrics for 3 years as an engineering manager. The pattern is getting worse, not better:
- Apple Calculator: 32GB RAM leak - Spotify on macOS: 79GB memory consumption - CrowdStrike: One missing bounds check = 8.5M crashed computers - macOS Spotlight: Wrote 26TB to SSDs overnight
Meanwhile Big Tech is spending $364B on infrastructure instead of fixing the code.
I wrote up the full analysis with citations: The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe
But the real question: When did we normalize this? What happened to basic quality standards?
What are you seeing in your organizations?



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