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Re:Has the Decline of Knowledge Work Begun? by Art9681 on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @10:08PM (#43489725)
All I know is more often than not, when I travel by air, I am more than likely going to be in a Boeing aircraft. I also know more planes fly today than ever. So it is no surprise that in a hyper connected world where everyone with a phone and a camera can document every single failure in any service or product, that it would be perceived that things are going backwards. If we had this in the 80's or 90's it wouldn't be much different.

Did our quality and capability get worse or did everyone become a journalist that can document every flaw and distribute it globally in minutes?

Hmmm....

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Re:Has the Decline of Knowledge Work Begun? by yubblegum on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @10:12PM (#43489749)
Hmmm... OK, Airbus calls to say hi, too.
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Re:Has the Decline of Knowledge Work Begun? by SecretDreams on Thursday March 27, 2025 @08:49AM (#43493058)
QC hasn't scaled with volume and robustness introduced by better engineers (now retired) has been peeled back by juniors and managers that didn't understand the designs in the first place and are chasing mass and profit instead.
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Re:Has the Decline of Knowledge Work Begun? by trollbridge on Thursday March 27, 2025 @09:30AM (#43493432)
QC is one of the first things to get cut. In software eventually customers punish you when your software is so bad that they can’t really use it at all. Aircraft used to be regulated, but Boeing somehow carved out “self regulation”. It’s the same problem as how washing machines don’t last as long as they did 20 years ago.
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Re:Has the Decline of Knowledge Work Begun? by johnnyanmac on Thursday March 27, 2025 @08:50AM (#43493067)
Our capabilities didn't get worse. Management caused a shift in culture to make things worse by cheaper. We call it enshittification these days, but it'd decades in the making.

All this discussion assumes that Boeing engineers didn't catch this stuff and weren't banging the alarm bells over how these completely failed inspection. The problem was the people in power ignored it. This is an entirely social issue constructed by business demands, not one lacking expertise nor standards.

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