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A single panel comic with a malformed, slightly damaged, yet freshly built home in the background. In the foreground, a man in a hard hat and a reflective vest is speaking to another man, presumably the buyer, saying, “It’s called vibe construction. I’m not even a contractor! Pretty soon all buildings will be made this way.”

    • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 hour ago

      I’m guessing most commentary will be about software, but there was an analysis I heard of, claiming that construction is one of very few industries across economic sectors that just hasn’t made any kind of efficiency advancements in decades. Most other systems follow some kind of workflow improvement, or inventions that significantly improve some part of the process. But home building has only gotten harder and more expensive for making the same homes as before.

      Maybe we’re seeing the same in game development. You look at what games were made during PS360 on multiple odd architectures, low memory, and comparatively small teams, and see how much things are faltering since then.

      • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        35 minutes ago

        Homebuilding in the US did make some serious efficiency improvements, just many decades ago rather than a couple. Sheetrock is massively more efficient than lath-and-plaster, trusses are more efficient than onsite rafter roofs, and prebuilt windows and doors are more efficient than the older casement windows and hand-hung wooden doors. Never mind that these more efficient alternatives are much shittier in so many ways than what they replaced.

        More recent efficiency improvements have been confined to massively underpaying construction workers and bribing inspectors to cover up the incredibly shitty quality work this inevitably produces.

    • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
      4·
      2 hours ago

      I’ve long said (well before AI) that we must have similar kinds of regulation for software, especially software that is used as infrastructure. This includes ~all social media, operating systems obviously, productivity software, shopping websites/apps… It’s all the wild west, with so many dark patterns and predatory tactics, all of which regulation would ban. Software engineers would have to be certified and personally responsible for their design, just like civil engineers.

      It would have to be balanced somehow with software freedom. I don’t want to add any barriers for hobbyists and bedroom programmers just wanting to play around with code and share it. But at the same time, I see that barriers are sorely needed for everyone else.

      • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works
        4·
        1 hour ago

        Hobbyist carpenters also don’t have to deal with like 99% of the regulations around buildings.

        You can just go make a chair, or a table. Frankly if code is going to be used in a serious large scale project it shouldn’t be the realm of hobbyists and if it does somehow end up like that they should be held to same strict code as the professionals.

      • smiletolerantly@awful.systems
        1·
        2 hours ago

        How about only apply to non-FOSS software? Most hobby projects used not just by the author altend to be FOSS, and businesses can decide to go FOSS, making their software independently auditable by anyone, or go through certification.

        I guess there’s a danger of a campaign to re-brand FOSS as “uncertified” then…