Teeth are liability in a similar way. Once we get the permanent set, they need to be maintained in various expensive and painful ways. On the plus side, they do

Teeth are liability in a similar way. Once we get the permanent set, they need to be maintained in various expensive and painful ways. On the plus side, they do provide value. Software rots too, if for no other reason then due to Lehman's 1st law [1]. Difference is that with code we have more choices. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehman%27s_laws_of_software_evolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehman%27s_laws_of_software_ev...