I didn't read the blog but many of assumptions here are not well thought out.
"The Apple Calculator leaked 32GB of RAM." What does this mean exactly. If there was a story, I missed it. What's the actual story??
"We've normalized software catastrophes...." Our computers are a lot more powerful now and can take more problem with ease. I used to run 4MB of RAM on my windows 3.1box. So...? I'm not defending poor software quality, but we're not comparing apples and oranges as far as present and past computer resources.
"AI just weaponized existing incompetence." This is a toss it in, make myself look clever BS statement. We don't know that.
"Here's what engineering leaders don't want to acknowledge:" Which leaders? Who is he talking about?
" but because nobody noticed the cumulative cost until users started complaining." Nobody. Really? Bullshit. There's all kinds of competency in computing... and all kinds of incompetency. No one noticed... Yeah, it hit us like a bolt from the blue, "hey! some of this software sucks!" Welcome to the world of the real.
"We're living through the greatest software quality crisis in computing history. " This person, I don't know who he is, but he - sounds young and excitable. Like he doesn't know the past, maybe. "THIS crisis that I'M living through is the WORST!" Really. No it's not. When people are making bad software, it inspires others to attempt to improve it... Crisis? Shitty software? Microsoft used to routinely sell software ideas, the didn't even exist yet.
This person would do well to calm down. He thinks this is a huge crisis. Really? A child starves to death in the world, about every 7 seconds. Do the math over time on that.... that's a crisis.
Bad software? It's par for the course. Just look backwards a little.