The Stability Assumption: The Hidden Defect Source

Part 11 of Protective Computing in Practice — Start here: https://dev.to/crisiscoresystems/offline-first-without-a-backend-a-local-first-pwa-architecture-you-can-trust-3j15 The Stability Assumption: The Hidden Defect Source Most software bugs are not random. A lot of them start much earlier than people think. Not in a broken function. Not in a missed test. Not in some weird edge case nobody could have seen coming. If you want privacy-first, offline health tech to exist without surveillance funding it: sponsor the build → https://paintracker.ca/sponsor They start in the premise layer. They start when a product is built around the assumption that the user is operating under normal conditions. Online. Rested. Safe. Focused. On a working device. With time to think. With stable access to their accounts. With enough margin to recover cleanly when something goes wrong. That assumption is everywhere, which is exactly why it hides so well. Protective Computing names it directly: the Stability A