IMHO market pressures, focus on profit, lack of care for quality by the developers as well as management, and so forth are all why software is basically shit th

IMHO market pressures, focus on profit, lack of care for quality by the developers as well as management, and so forth are all why software is basically shit these days. > Perhaps the solution to making software jewels less rare is to make it easier for software engineers to make jewels by creating more sophisticated developer tools, so that way the quick-and-dirty approach just so happens to align with "the right thing." That would go a long, long way, but culturally we would need to embrace quality over profits and I don't see that happening any time soon. I do believe we will make some gains in the tooling due to open source/collaborative work a lot of us do for fun. Granted, without the cultural shift, it'll be a slow, gradual change.