No One Cares About Software Quality

software engineers are extremely well paid, this means that software has always been supply-side constrained most companies, even with billions of dollars at their disposal, are incapable of shipping even basic functional websites that aren’t riddled with bugs… 1/

Most manufactured objects are quite simple, and even complex mechanical products are quitesimple when compared to most software and software-enabled products that can be compiled from over one million lines of code (compare this to a mechanical artifact of overwhelming complexity such as the space shuttle, which has 250,000 parts, only a small perc

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Most software we use at work exists in one of two categories:

1. It’s new and we love it for now.


2. It’s old but we have to use it and we hate it.