Simplenote is an Automattic product. I notice that Automattic toward the end of last year had these major administrative problems that seemed to lead to mass engineer exoduses. I can't help but wonder if Automattic has finally started to lose the people who can keep their software working and/or replacing them with "AI". A rock solid product (which only works if it is rock solid) has now started developing new strange problems every other week.
@mcc I tried reporting a bug in Automattic’s Pocket Casts a while ago and they had an AI chatbot respond to it. Then after I eventually convinced it to show the report to a human it got bounced back to the AI because I was busy for two days and couldn’t respond immediately. I gave up on reporting bugs to them after that. I’d guess others have as well as it’s only been accumulating bugs since then
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