Right. There seems to be this mythos that embedded systems developers are the hallowed priests of high-quality software development and embedded systems as the

Right. There seems to be this mythos that embedded systems developers are the hallowed priests of high-quality software development and embedded systems as these robust combinations of specialty electronics that can withstand everything up to a nuke dropped nearby. In truth, embedded systems engineers and the hardware they use/design have the same span of quality you'll find in most other types of software developments outside Safety Critical products. I've seen some really dumb things done by people who should know better and on the flip side, some systems that I'd happily trust my life to. There's no magic.