[ohnomrbill]

The important thing (which no fork can really change) is that the assumed likelihood of contracts having bugs went way, way up as a result of finding one critical bug so quickly in a large contract. You may not be able to steal a massive pot like theDAO again - but this shows that you can make a killing using exploits against smaller players. They either have to hard fork each time an individual gets their savings wiped out, or accept that there is risk of death by 1000 cuts when investing in ETH. Others may see things differently of course.

[mikeash]

It's all going to come down to risk/reward. How much work does it take to find a bug in a contract, and how much money do you get out of it? It's possible that any given contract is likely to have bugs, but that it takes so long to find them that it's not worth the effort. That assumes that different contracts have different bugs, which may not actually be the case. And of course it could be the other way around, where bugs are easy and plentiful and the whole thing collapses. It'll be interesting to see how it actually ends up.