This is going to sound defensive, but: is the problem really with developers? In my experience as a developer, we've never been given the necessary resources (

This is going to sound defensive, but: is the problem really with developers? In my experience as a developer, we've never been given the necessary resources (time, QA access, specs that don't change every day, sample data, redundant hardware, etc) to build a reliable system. Managers always pushed me to have something that looks mostly-working, and shipped by the artificial deadline, and argue that any known bugs or limitations are not important enough to fix before the next round of new features. It's not so much that I'm not required to care, but that I'm not allowed to care. I get better food at Canlis than McD's, too, but given the time/ingredient/recipe constraints, even the Canlis chef would struggle to make something great if thrown into a McD's kitchen.