> otherwise software wouldn't have economies of scale Does it? I tend to think it doesn't (in terms of code size; obviously it does if we're scaling by number

> otherwise software wouldn't have economies of scale Does it? I tend to think it doesn't (in terms of code size; obviously it does if we're scaling by number of users) Even if bugs scale sublinearly in practice- my gut tells me it's because development as a whole slows down even more than the bugs accelerate, partially making up for it I.e. suppose your codebase size grows 5x, and the bugs per change grows 10x, but then the org's rate of change also slows down by 5x. Now your bugs per time has only grown by 2x.