[warkdarrior]

That just developers being lazy! As a user, I want my computer and my software to manage all state for me. This means remembering all data I entered (so I can continue work from where I left off), all files I saved (so I can search for them easily), all actions I've taken (so I can undo them), all sites I browsed (so I can find them again), all info I uploaded (so I can check which website knows what about me), etc.

[karmakaze]

I also found this to be defeatist (and the basis of the post):

> As a programmer, it’s impossible to predict all the states that your program can end up in.

It's true that we can't predict all the things other programmers will change the program to do in the future, but we can take precautions such as rejecting invalid states, or if being liberal in the input it accepts transform it to something usable.