Following the news developer id Software has been significantly impacted by Asha Sharma's sweeping Xbox job cuts, John Carmack has shared his thoughts.
They’re actively burning it down. The website often has issues while navigating etc. (while logged in), I frequently have to refresh after clicking on a link because it still isn’t loaded 10s+ later, or because issues/PRs search just won’t load results. The uptime is terrible, if you’re using multiple of their systems they don’t even hit 99% every month anymore.
No, but that was the time when every tech company could basically generate money out of big userbases and empty promises. If you don’t have to worry about making money, you don’t have to enshittify something. Companies like uber would not exist in todays market because investors wouldn’t subsidize that company for years until it finally turns a profit. Hell, I think uber just turned profitable in early 2024, so 11 years of losses, and I highly doubt that in todays market, investors will subsidize companies like OpenAI for 11 years.
“Why can’t I just make an app or a service that is that successful? I know some very intelligent people, why did it work for those companies and not for us?” And it really all comes down to that.
They can hemmorhage money for decades and still be going because of investor support. Its a wonder anything works at all ever honestly. Its a weird system
I remember when Microsoft bought GitHub everyone was worried.
And then, they actually made it a little better while not burning it down.
There was a time during the 2010s that seemed like big companies had learned not to ruin a good thing.
They’re actively burning it down. The website often has issues while navigating etc. (while logged in), I frequently have to refresh after clicking on a link because it still isn’t loaded 10s+ later, or because issues/PRs search just won’t load results. The uptime is terrible, if you’re using multiple of their systems they don’t even hit 99% every month anymore.
Aggregate uptime for the last 90 days doesn’t even hit a single 9 anymore: https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/#about
No, but that was the time when every tech company could basically generate money out of big userbases and empty promises. If you don’t have to worry about making money, you don’t have to enshittify something. Companies like uber would not exist in todays market because investors wouldn’t subsidize that company for years until it finally turns a profit. Hell, I think uber just turned profitable in early 2024, so 11 years of losses, and I highly doubt that in todays market, investors will subsidize companies like OpenAI for 11 years.
I think about this all the time.
“Why can’t I just make an app or a service that is that successful? I know some very intelligent people, why did it work for those companies and not for us?” And it really all comes down to that.
They can hemmorhage money for decades and still be going because of investor support. Its a wonder anything works at all ever honestly. Its a weird system