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# Software developers have stopped caring about reliability
- URL: https://werd.io/software-developers-have-stopped-caring-about-reliability/
- Published: 2021-10-19T13:23:09.000Z
- Updated: 2021-10-19T13:23:09.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:24

"It’s hard to overstate just how much software developers have given the finger to reliability in the past 10 years or so. It’s for the simplest, silliest reasons, too, like those web forms. My web browser has been perfectly competent at submitting HTML forms for the past 28 years, but for some stupid reason some asshole developer decided to reimplement all of the form semantics in JavaScript, and now I can’t pay my electricity bill without opening up the dev tools. Imagine what it’s like to not know how to do that. Imagine if you were blind."

\[[Link](https://drewdevault.com/2021/10/17/Reliability.html)\]