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You forgot the “All content created by AI is property of the Software Provider”

if anyone enshittified, it was adobe

A strong SaaS report gets more useful when it separates new sales from expansion and churn. Those three lines help founders see whether growth comes from demand, retention, or pricing.

Most egregious one I've seen is on a login page for a service where the chat bot opens by default asking if you need help signing in before you have even clicked into the login boxes

Anything to grab your attention and your money. Every day web ads and popups get a little bigger, chatbot dings get a little louder, and computers get less usable than they were the day before

Software developer for 40 years. The slop they create today makes my head explode. Slap stuff anywhere without thinking. Limited testing. Difficult to fix errors. Then blame the user.

this is so gross but true

That “nobody” Is going a lot of work. Millions of people isn’t nobody.

We've lost the ability to stand on the shoulders of giants.

Depressingly accurate

🤢

This is inaccurate, the Ai assistant is not intrusive enough. There should be a pop up telling you about it covering half of your work area.

Don't underestimate what they're learning (or think that they are learning). One label may not tell them much, but suppose you label your file folders, or your pantry shelves. There's more information there & if they sell it to a broker who combines it with other data they've scraped about you…

Time to get a brother label maker or those simple impress wheels… “SHIELD EYES FROM LIGHT”

lolol so true; sad truth

that pop is not nearly big enough and the x button is way too bold and clearly defined. should be vague buttons that say "acknowledge" and "enable" instead

Why I like open source software. Corposoft is turning into an ugly useless mess while open source software improves alot

True.... although I wouldn't want to go back to the days before the cloud existed. Carrying around USB sticks and emailing files to yourself... *shudder*

I love opening a program after a year to find it less usable and more rented out

Software bsky.app/profile/mich...

The right one lowkey is paint.net

SaaS now biting digital forensics in the arse!

Sadly, too accurate.

Oh the days where the shut down button wasn't hid in the START button....

SaaD: Software as a Disappointment

couldn’t agree more

You can also say the same about cancer, which has dramatically & exponentially increased with the infestation of capitalism into farming as well as industrialization & the pollution it spews into air, water & land.

Why Linux Inkscape & gimp Open Source will never charge you a Subscription they may give you the option for AI Free To unlock its full potential all you need to do is Double Click no subscription New unlock subscription is a lifetime commitment to that corporation push button below if you want that

It's out of control. Who's in charge? I thought monopolies weren't suppose to happen? Who's in control of the Cloud???

The calculator on my windows doesn’t work…It is so shoddy

👏👏👏 kudos

And this is why we got subscriptions. Over the excuse that they keep working on it.

Reading about a new Office for Mac release, the one with Philipp Antoni’s icons, was what made me believe a career in UI Design (back when it was called that) was possible even from out of Vienna. 👍 (Now I know better, but still.)

i've been saying this for years now. they laid off their beta testers and instead profit off free labor from autistic children who don't know better yet.

Office software development seems to be taking the wrong lessons from video game development.

"This is great! I won't need to hire a graphic artist to make advertising collateral!" -Every Dumb-ass Boss, Ever

I truly enjoy and appreciate the user-first design in Acrobat that lets me dock the AI button floating in the lower right of the workspace into a slightly smaller AI button floating in the lower right of the workspace. It's like reading Programming As If People Mattered all over again.

The only things I'd change to make it more accurate are I'd put an obnoxious oscillating gradient on the "Ask AI!" button and I'd replace the X in the speech bubble with "Show me how!" and "Remind me later..." buttons lmao

The Dumbering Down of America ...

Free trial... for $80 a month

100% My aged Acrobat 8.1 has a fave feature but is tied to an old machine. Been using an alternate on my new machine. Both look like your mock-up on the left: functional. I found a legit 2022 Acrobat (no subscription) to get that one feature on my new PC. UI is just like the one on the right. Blech

Painfully accurate. 🤣

If it is useful to see a working setup with this stuff already handled, I packaged it at fastrag.live. No pressure either way, mostly just wanted to compare notes.

Right: someone builds something because their pm thinks they can extract value from their users.

so true!!

Can we go back please?

Completed by the ai help bubble that's always in the way.

Software is better today

i heard a chap the other day say, "our company has put AI on everyone's computer... and the button is in a place where people accidentally click the most"

Ugh. This reminded me that I still pay for Photoshop and Figma to do some very basic things on the regular. @excalidraw.com and Open Pencil would probably fill that.

AI is out there writing customized software and making SaaS obsolete.

So true, and a terrible click to action ratio

It's bad. I started coding in the 80s. We've replaced actual programmers, who knew how to write a UI and get every bit of performance out of hardware at the register-level, with "kids with Crayons" who cobble together Franken-programs from other peoples parts and wonder why performance sucks??

Personally don't mind rounded corners but everything else pmo

Right down to the rounded corners

ALSO in Software by corporation: the nag screen you can't get past until you sign in

Bold and SaaSsy! Of course, now you pay a monthly subscription fee instead of owning the software outright.

Makes me glad to daily drive FOSS.

Hmmm. To be fair, the one on the right looks like Kai Krause created it.