Because of this, H1B workers have no choice but to accept bad pay and working conditions.

I think a lot of people assume consciously or sub consciously that everything is a bit of a lie, and one's solution is worse than it's sold as.

But - I have found that every single model available is lacking in creating a great UX, even when you are aggressively using playwright in your agent loop. IMO this comes down to a fundamental limitation of how LLMs work. If an app has a button that is too small, or white text on white background, or inconsistent layouts, or non deterministic ux state due to network calls (looking at you spotify).... the agent will not notice or care. A playwright driving agent can click on a button wether its 1px or 1000px wide.

But ultimately, a good ux is about designing for the constraints that we as humans have to live with as mere mortals with all our imperfections. This is not easy to do, and requires a lot of craftmanship by the developers as well as buy in from the suites and middle managers.

In your windows vista example, the issue is almost surely the latter of my previous sentance - middle manager buy in. No one at microsoft leadership gives a shit about the user experience its all kpi seeking nonsense. The user having a good experience is not measured in their spreadsheet.

When you think about it, pretty much every single product we use helps address a problem related to our fundamental human flaws. Im typing this on an expensive ergonomic keyboard because my wrists hurt, youtube premium exists because I dont want to waste my precious time on stuff I dont want to see, we use operating systems with GUIs because our mortal minds cant easily comprehend thousands of lines of text in seconds.

When I use a horrible website I have a very intuitive, almost instinctive reaction similar to how I react to physical pain. An LLM will never experience this, so it will never create a ux as good as a human can on its own.

When AI can one shot the implementation and testing, it likely only gets 1 round of human testing if you are lucky. Then scale this to an entire AI generated project, the ratio of features to manually run tests is astronomical. In the old days this ratio was inverted, and the tool has been battle tested before reaching any users.

There have been times where I will pay to "own" instead of rent a tv show I really like, and then a year later that streaming service loses the rights to it, and so do I.

Also "lose their personal savings" is a hyperbolic bad faith argument. If anyone's entire net worth is put into Meta stock, they get whats coming. Second, 93% of the stock market is owned by 10% of the population. The average American has more to gain from holding companies accountable than letting them rape and pillage our society so the richest people can have even more money.

Even before AI coding I did not trust big tech companies to make updates that have my best interests in mind. Many of these examples are weird feature or ux changes - like how spotify treats liked songs as a playlist (requiring more taps to like a song). Not the end of the world. But on the more extreme side, my gaming PC's windows installation has died via bad windows update twice now. I don't use it for anything important anymore. It's insane that my claude code driven homelab stack has allowed me to have better uptime than github.

Now in the AI coding era, its obvious to me that alot of the tools I am forced to use on a day to day basis are frequently shipped with slop, causing more bugs and all around jankier UX's. With my claude max subscription, im suddenly able to make tools perfectly tailored to what I want, and I can rest assured I wont wake up and find the equivalent of a bad IOS update.

If anything happens from this, I hope it forces Microsoft to address some of its long standing hostile to power users issues so they can stay relevant in the world of AI tooling.

That is the visible part that leads most people to being anti data center. The average Joe thinks "why is my community, water supply, and money going to this thing I dont want"

I want to see large investment in mass produced nuclear power plants, enabling us to do exactly what you are suggesting.

I envision something similar to a massive sankey diagram like dataset in a public git repo that anyone could access and audit. There is certainly lots of waste, but there is also loads of government spending where the value is not obvious.