Software developers have stopped caring about reliability

A passionate critique of the modern software industry's neglect of reliability and robustness. Developers are blamed for shipping broken software, reimplementing solved problems poorly (e.g., HTML forms in JavaScript), and ignoring users who lack technical expertise to work around bugs. The post calls on developers to prioritize simplicity, design for valid states, test error cases thoroughly, prefer proven technologies, and stop letting economics override empathy for users. It argues that the 'move fast and break things' culture has made computers genuinely hostile to non-technical users.