Baron von Fajita

Except that most risks are from bad leadership decisions. Exhibit A: patches exist for so many vulnerabilities that remain unpatched because of bad business decisions.

I think in a theoretical sense, she is correct. However, in practice things are much different.

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I always look for the companies that are advertising heavily. If we could see their books, I’d say the ones that spend more on marketing than engineering, product, and ops are likely the ones who will enshittify, eventually. They are building the product or service to sell later so they are trying to drum up users and corner the market.

Unfortunately, this is just about everything in the US now.