A coworker of mine explained his belief that professional software development is an inherently economic activity. This was clarified by saying that the amount

A coworker of mine explained his belief that professional software development is an inherently economic activity. This was clarified by saying that the amount of imperfections, performance problems, and bugs in a piece of software is not reflective of the software nor its writers, but what most end users ultimately care about. Whenever I read posts like Software Disenchantment, I find myself agreeing with that philosophy. In other words, it’s probably by design. Of course this doesn’t account for the enormous waste of time and money that occurs during software development, but that doesn’t really affect my feelings on the matter.