Software quality is getting worse on average right now. On one hand, variance is going up, which means there are excellent systems being built that would not have been possible before. But you also need to factor in that more code is being written planet-wide than at any point in history—a lot of it by people who don't understand how to get both pace and quality right. We need to figure out how to be even better at things that look good but are not good. When used poorly, AI is just a…