Is there a good way to fix it? I mean, if you were building bridges, certainly another engineer could show you data about material properties and successful bui

Is there a good way to fix it? I mean, if you were building bridges, certainly another engineer could show you data about material properties and successful builds, and you could reasonably extrapolate to your new (unique) design fairly well, but that's because you're building with the same physical materials and operating under the same laws. With software, it is a bit harder to find that common ground, because the 'laws' change if you are on a different architecture or handling different kinds of 'traffic', etc. For a bridge, you can just make a bigger beam because you would never try to build close to the scale which would make the material properties irrelevant, but with a computer, you can do this, and you might start to invalidate prior evidence. A large amount of software development dogma is built around scaling up, but that's also a huge problem in every engineering & scientific discipline. Though, to counter my own counter-point, it would be nice to have better analytical tools; more informative & accurate ways to understand & visualize how resources are actually being used when a program runs.