The Apple Calculator leaked 32GB of RAM.
Not used. Not allocated. Leaked. A basic calculator app is hemorrhaging more memory than most computers had a decade ago.
Twenty years ago, this would have triggered emergency patches and post-mortems. Today, it's just another bug report in the queue.
We've normalized software catastrophes to the point where a Calculator leaking 32GB of RAM barely makes the news. This isn't about AI. The quality crisis started years before ChatGPT existed. AI just weaponized existing incompetence.
The Numbers Nobody Wants to Discuss
I've been tracking software quality metrics for three years. The degradation isn't gradual—it's exponential.
Memory consumption has lost all meaning:
These aren't feature requirements. They're memory leaks that nobody bothered to fix.
System-level failures have become routine:
The pattern is clear: ship broken, fix later. Sometimes.
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