> Heck, you can write some pretty terrible code, and as long as it’s not some specific flavors of bad, your company will be totally okay for a very long time.

> Heck, you can write some pretty terrible code, and as long as it’s not some specific flavors of bad, your company will be totally okay for a very long time. That's why software is a shithole compared with less abstract machines. As software is eating the world this becomes a greater problem with every year passing. And the even greater problem behind that is that we won't be able to fix the already created mess, ever. The current shithole is almost unfixable as it would require decades of fundamental clean up… Exactly the above cited attitude brought us into this situation. It's like all doctors would says: "Well, up to 30% of our patients die while treated, but who cares? You can't get better medical care anyway anywhere because just nobody cares—and it would be actually to expansive to put more caution into this." ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ If that would be the common sense among almost all doctors the patients that make it would be "totally okay" with that likely too; as they would not even know that their chances with most treatments could be much better, if only the doctors would be more willing, and of course capable, in the first place. The "code is good enough if it works", and "bugs in software are god given" attitude is imho the root cause all evil in software development. As long as this does not change broadly humanity is doomed to have only bug ridden security nightmares, that barely work, instead of proper "virtual tools". It's even a wonder that actually anything computer related works despite this "who cares" attitude among the majority of coders.