The reddit thread I saw was full of people saying they'd missed work, interviews, all kinds of stuff. You'd absolutely assume you were at fault, and not the thousand dollar smart device failing to do something a $10 bedside clock can do, right? What a mess.
@timixretroplays@jpm There are lines for politeness. If someone is a Nazi you don't have to start the conversation in a measured, polite way. Likewise, if someone tries to just shrug and say even trivial software is impossible to write, that's not acceptable in my book. Software errors can and have killed people. Take the job seriously. "All software has bugs" is low, it's heartless, it's peak techbro, and I'm sick of hearing it.
And in the industry, it really just comes off as lazy. "No I won't write tests, the software is too trivial for that"; "No I'm not an engineer, I'm a programmer" or whatever they need to get the damn thing merged. Then their little "oopsie daisy" inevitably comes with some sage nodding and an "all software has bugs". Fucking no. Tell it to a judge. Why the industry abides this kind of rubbish is beyond me.
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