> there is a surprising amount of engineering going on without scrutiny or peer review I've worked on testing DoD satellites prior to launch. There were comme

> there is a surprising amount of engineering going on without scrutiny or peer review I've worked on testing DoD satellites prior to launch. There were comment-level spelling errors [with "no real impact" to actual testing or functionality, honest] which passed through multiple reviews involving 3-4 people each review before being caught -- and even though they were in comments, required a version-uplift for the change. And these were comments for Humans. Imagine if I or someone else buggered up on actual executable software functions. [Hardware bugger-ups are a different similar stories]