#consumer-software on Hacker News

2 stories tagged consumer-software, newest first.

The force-feeding of AI features on an unwilling public (honest-broker.com)

330 points by imartin2k 1 year ago | 279 comments

Ted Gioia essay on The Honest Broker arguing tech companies are forcing unwanted AI features on users, calling it tyranny rather than innovation.

1311 points by ivee 3 years ago | 721 comments

A Substack essay by Ivan Vendrov arguing that consumer software gets worse over time because companies optimize for the least-engaged marginal user.