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by gmueckl 2607 days ago
A lot of the most serious software engineering work that I have done had much the same ratio: coding the a solution that mostly works was easy. Making sure that it is robust against all kinds of failures (CPU, RAM, bus/external device failure, random bit flips etc.[0]) and does the right thing was a lot of work.

[0] The system I worked on was hardened against all of that and some more failure modes.