Software developers have stopped caring about reliability An Article by Drew DeVault drewdevault.com Of all the principles of software engineering which has fallen by the wayside in the modern “move fast and break things” mentality of assholes modern software developers, reliability is perhaps the most neglected, along with its cousin, robustness. Almost all software that users encounter in $CURRENTYEAR is straight-up broken, and often badly. softwareprinciples
When users never use the features they asked for An Article by Austin Z. Henley web.eecs.utk.edu We deployed our tool. Almost no one used it. The handful that did use it, used it once or twice and barely interacted with it. After a few days, zero people were using it. Why did they tell me they wanted these features? featuresuxresearch