You're seeing apps crashing, but apps have always used to crash. What makes you think that software quality is collapsing? How do you know it's getting worse, not just staying the same?
You're seeing apps crashing, but apps have always used to crash. What makes you think that software quality is collapsing? How do you know it's getting worse, not just staying the same?
Good question. The difference is in scale and tolerance.
Crashes used to be localized, one app, one machine. Now a missing field in a config file can take down 8.5 million Windows systems globally. Spotify leaking 79GB of RAM isn’t a “bug,” it’s normalized waste.
The signal isn’t that bugs exist, it’s that catastrophic ones no longer trigger process change. We’ve accepted systemic failure as normal because hardware and cloud budgets hide the cost.