Ask HN: Why is software quality collapsing? (Apple Calculator leaks 32GB RAM)

I've been tracking software quality metrics for 3 years as an engineering manager. The pattern is getting worse, not better: - Apple Calculator: 32GB RAM leak - Spotify on macOS: 79GB memory consumption - CrowdStrike: One missing bounds check = 8.5M crashed computers - macOS Spotlight: Wrote 26TB to SSDs overnight Meanwhile Big Tech is spending $364B on infrastructure instead of fixing the code. I wrote up the full analysis with citations: https://techtrenches.substack.com/p/the-great-software-quality-collapse But the real question: When did we normalize this? What happened to basic quality standards? What are you seeing in your organizations?