Given the enormous costs of some of these long tail bugs, it should be more evident that we have things in place to try to prevent them from happening in the fi

Given the enormous costs of some of these long tail bugs, it should be more evident that we have things in place to try to prevent them from happening in the first place. When I started in C++ I knew there was a lot I didn't know, but I assumed it would get sorted out over the life of the program. Now I'm almost afraid to write C++, or at least to step off the yellow-brick-road of tried and true things 'I know for sure'. I'm afraid for people on my team doing that and feel weirdly paternalistic when requiring my devs. to do the same. I feel like an adult explaining why we 'walk on the sidewalk not the road' to adults who actually do know the sidewalk is safer, but are probably unaware of the statistical liability of walking along the road even as an adult. As a developer - I love solving these problems. As a product leader they scare me to death - losing x% of your development time to never ending rabbit holes.