alt Hacker NewsWho cares if it's good enough? Send the product, if people use it, it's good enough. If not, let users debut it and give "feedback", problem solved. You then advocate to these users, make them feel important, make them your cash cows, rinse and repeat.
Every team I have been on have been more successful when they gave up on the product ideals and just ensured that the customers were hooked and satisfied.
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That mindset is why most software was already slop before AI. Users know when your team has turned into salespeople. And now that AI could enable you to do better in the same timeframe the response with this mindset is of course to care even less.
More than one service has lost me as a customer due to this process. I don't want a company to use me to verify their slop.
> Who cares if it's good enough? Send the product, if people use it, it's good enough. If not, let users debut it and give "feedback", problem solved.
I care, because doing a sloppy job and seeing if people will tolerate it is not acceptable engineering practice. It's not engineering at all. More pragmatically, if you do the thing you are suggesting, you won't have users for much longer. They will abandon you and go to someone who actually makes good products.
Me! I care! I want to use the things I create and be able to fix them when they break without relying on an intermediary simply because I'm too lazy to learn. It gives me a feeling of contented self-actualization and overall satisfaction with my choices in life.
Perhaps that is overrated and I should focus more on exploiting people with crappy software so that I can make more money. I guess that's what life is all about.