I suspect we’re about to see a zeitgeist-level design ethos swing from “ideas worth spreading” (TED, media lab etc) to “jankiness worth fixing” The specific sordid reasons the trend is reversing now are actually not that important. It would have happened even without scandals.
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Replying to @vgr
Is this more than just / fundamentally different from an explore vs exploit cycle?
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More. It’s refactoring I think. Exploit is middle of spectrum. It’s like a land grab/colonization step. Explore <——- exploit —-—-> refactor.
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Societal refactor is a perfect term for the current period. It’s a large scale refactor on a legacy codebase with poorly defined interfaces; all the tests are failing, all the branches have merge conflicts, but the prod environment still pretty much works.
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