> Nearly all big tech code is AI written today. What about that isn't "production-grade?"

I do not think the recent reliability and quality of major services would be considered acceptable if it weren't for a domestic tech oligopoly systematically lowering standards.

The U.S. auto industry also shows that oligopolies can shut out competition for quite some time and steer their captive market into accepting mediocrity, but innovation continues anyway. It's quite the contrast seeing domestic automakers turn their backs on EVs at the same time the Chinese are advertising 10 minute flash charging.

Yesterday I couldn't get a download link for the Windows install media creation tool for a solid hour due to errors at their CDN(?). I have a friend in IT who tells me "degraded availability" across their many services is a daily thing.

The solution, clearly, is even more layoffs.

I don't think it's crazy to imagine a misconfigured production environment. I always see these same examples of how "containers aren't really secure" and they're very amateur sins to commit though, as you mention.

AFAIK a comprehensive SELinux policy (like Red Hat ships) set to enforce will also prevent quite a few file accesses or modifications from escapes.

You've got a lot of people contesting the "often" part but I'll also add that there's a project tracking banking apps that do work: https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compa...

My tiny local credit union app isn't on there, but it worked fine. I miss wallet a bit and it's a shame that there are important apps which still refuse to act reasonably, but I don't think it's really that bad.

Seconded. My credit union's app works just fine as well

I think eBay's larger volume makes it easier to find a seller that will go through the "infeasible" trouble of sorting OEM-unlocked devices. I very recently switched to Graphene and nearly purchased from a listing that had similar "may or may not be OEM locked" language before finding one that promised it was unlocked.