[dnautics]

The inherent presumption is that software engineers are engineers in that sense of the word. How I wish more were.

[pas]

In my experience clients make business decisions that trade-off reliability, robustness, high-avaibility, etc. all the time. Because they can.

Just look at the F31, recently they opted to "test in prod" for a lot of components. And not because of the engineers/developers.

Were it a nuclear reactor control software they wouldn't have decided that way. (Hopefully.)