> Who cares?

Probably the people who are victims of identity theft, or have personal DMs leaked, or any other severe consequence of data breaches?

Thanks for proving my point though. No one cares about them anymore, as long as we ship fast and stock go up.

the pendulum is starting to swing back, one of the hyperscalers that went in big on vibecoding slop is starting to re-introduce security principles to product and especially infra development. The founder bros that have little to lose will continue with what they’re doing until the public starts caring about how their data is treated.

Are you seriously asserting that security and code quality are not important? That the implications of poor security and of unmaintainable, garbage systems are entirely made-up and immaterial?

This is hard to face for conscientious people who have built identities around their skills, but yes, objectively, as measured by results, quality¹ is not important and it never was. It's horrible to say, but no amount of indignation makes it false when it's a fact.

It's just true.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49105315

So who isn’t rent seeking? The tycoons, the landlords, the people who never build anything themselves and live off skimming off the top of other peoples labor?