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> Seems scuffed.

I like this phrasing and am curious what new word or phrase we might use to describe big companies over pushing Ai internally at the expense of their product quality. This pattern is so ubiquitous across google cloud products I have taken to calling them the 21st century IBM, having been a IBM baby and witnessing first hand their fall from exceptionalism.

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The internet and gaming has ruined my brain because scuffed was a way to describe a bad dungeon run in mythic plus dungeons in WoW, or a bad tower dive in LoL a few years ago. I see scuffed and think "here's a WoW/League knower".

Interesting. I don't play either LoL or retail WoW, but I am a historical WoW player.

HP is the other company to consider as analogous. And maybe more explicitly so, as they had a similar "engineering first" internal culture that degraded markedly over time to be a shadow of their former self.

And took similar companies that were quality engineering focused -- like DEC or Palm -- down with them through acquisition.

HP was deliberately destroyed by its moron of a CEO.

They were frankly on the decline a long time before that though.

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