How many years of our lives have been wasted away because someone had a KPI to increase usage of some dumb feature, and they chose the most user-hostile way to increase it.
(I'm thinking a lot of Copilot right now btw)
Jeff Geerling
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2026-05-18 15:11:23 UTC
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