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Comment by JohnBooty | Hacker News Reader

    the efficiency gains are resulting in more 
    products being created rather than existing 
    products being improved

This has been perhaps the only constant in the history of this industry. As software tooling and hardware get better, we never really feel or see the gains because companies and individual developers are pressed to do more.

If a tool makes my job 2x easier, then I'm simply expected to have 2x more output. Not 2x "better" output.

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100%. You can also see this with Moore's law. Hardware gains were converted to developer productivity gains.

Software is easier than ever to write, but now the average AAA video game is 100+ GB and most popular software is browser-based.

I think that at every stage of software development, a new tool comes along to help manage complexity. This is true from punchcards all the way to LLMs.

This chart illustrates it better: https://x.com/feketegy/status/1809173358279311672/photo/1

Because the quality of the product is not solely in engineering's hand. We build the products, and have a lot of impact on the microdecisions, but larger feature planning usually comes from product management, who ultimately should be the ones deciding what features to build to make the customer experience better

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