The number of person-hours wasted on over-engineered products that never even made it to release could have: solved the halting problem, delivered AGI v2.0, mad

The number of person-hours wasted on over-engineered products that never even made it to release could have: solved the halting problem, delivered AGI v2.0, made C memory-safe without compromising backward-compatibility, or made it easy to adjust mouse pointer speed on Linux.