C.<p>As a <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/software" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>software</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/engineer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>engineer</span></a>, try to go your whole <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/career" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>career</span></a> without building anything which will cause millions of <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/users" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>users</span></a> to spend frustrated hours searching for a way to turn the damn thing off.</p><p>Notable <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/failures" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>failures</span></a> to adhere to this principle: <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Google</span></a>'s "<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AI</span></a>" <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/search" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>search</span></a> summaries, <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Microsoft</span></a>'s conversion of <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Windows</span></a> into an <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/advertising" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>advertising</span></a> billboard that happens to sometimes show an <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/application" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>application</span></a> window, "<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/smart" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>smart</span></a>" appliances/devices that can't perform their basic function without <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/phoning" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>phoning</span></a> the <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/mothership" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mothership</span></a>.</p>