At 100k per year, 1B is a mere 10,000 man-years or with 4.4M devs in the US, that's less than one work day per currently-working dev across their entire career.

At 100k per year, 1B is a mere 10,000 man-years or with 4.4M devs in the US, that's less than one work day per currently-working dev across their entire career. I'm sure that I've spent weeks worth of time doing this in one form or another and I doubt that I'm alone here. By that metric, it's more like the 100B mistake.