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The software industry is adopting a "fast fashion" approach through AI-generated code, prioritizing quick, disposable solutions over quality and maintainability. LLM-powered "vibe coding" produces inconsistent, inefficient code that's treated as throwaway rather than an asset to maintain. This trend mirrors fast fashion's problems: environmental costs, poor quality, and a race to the bottom that ultimately harms users who deserve access to well-crafted, durable software rather than buggy, unmaintainable tools that frustrate daily use.

Software as Fast Fashion

Jeanne Auvray

Create a software company that is about software quality 100% and write each software that people use as a quality product!
Oh wait that IS apple!
On a second thought:
Oh wait that WAS apple
Well there you go, we just need a new apple guys!

What gives me some hope is that we live in a world where both H&amp;M and (companies like) Knowledge Cotton exist and thrive.
This makes me believe that there will be people who will want higher quality software products, even when slop could technically do the job.

The market requires quick solutions, which are always low-quality. End users have long been working at half the bet - testers ;)