We had a Cuisinart electric tea kettle that we loved. It died. We replaced it with the same one, and that started making weird annoying noises(!). Replaced that with a used Veken off of Facebook Marketplace, but various interface elements of that suck. So we're still looking. Are there differences in reliability between a $50 kettle and a $200 one, or are they all just bling?

Saw someone talk about how AI lets them do things that would take their IT department $500k to implement, and maybe it's time to concede that Agile has been a total disaster? We know how to build good software. We choose not to.