Buggy software frustrates you, and the people who shipped it felt the same way when they sent it. You open your new laptop and a folder flickers, disappears, comes back wrong. You do the update and something that worked yesterday stops working. This isn't your device aging out. This is a decision someone made before the product ever reached you.

Greg Fish has been inside these systems. Every modern product is built on abstractions: black boxes stacked inside other black boxes, each hiding what's actually running underneath. Most of the time the stack holds. But introduce a new condition, a new device state, something nobody had time to test, and the bugs become structurally unavoidable. Then layer AI-generated code on top, turning out volume at speed, and you've made the review process nearly impossible before the deadline lands.

Fish is direct: the culture of quantity and hype over quality is the biggest battle inside tech right now. Programmers feel it. They wrote the code, they want it right, and the system won't let them. Your frustration isn't irrational. It's the correct response to a process working exactly as designed.

Topics: buggy software, tech quality decline, leaky abstractions, AI-generated code, software culture

GUEST: Greg Fish | cyberpunksurvivalguide.com

Originally aired on 2026-02-25

Buggy software frustrates you, and the people who shipped it felt the same way when they sent it. You open your new laptop and a folder flickers, disappears, comes back wrong. You do the update and something that worked yesterday stops working. This isn't your device aging out. This is a decision someone made before the product ever reached you.
Greg Fish has been inside these systems. Every modern product is built on abstractions: black boxes stacked inside other black boxes, each hiding what's actually running underneath. Most of the time the stack holds. But introduce a new condition, a new device state, something nobody had time to test, and the bugs become structurally unavoidable. Then layer AI-generated code on top, turning out volume at speed, and you've made the review process nearly impossible before the deadline lands.
Fish is direct: the culture of quantity and hype over quality is the biggest battle inside tech right now. Programmers feel it. They wrote the code, they want it right, and the system won't let them. Your frustration isn't irrational. It's the correct response to a process working exactly as designed.
Topics:&nbsp;buggy software, tech quality decline, leaky abstractions, AI-generated code, software culture
GUEST:&nbsp;Greg Fish | cyberpunksurvivalguide.com
Originally aired on&nbsp;2026-02-25

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