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> Isn't that the point?

If the money is supposed to go towards people preventing damage, wouldn't that include devs?

> How much of this is due to liability law and how much is due to natural aspects of the relevant technology?

I can only speak from my own experience in biotech, but moving slowly was due to a lot of compliance box-ticking that didn't actually contribute a lot to either safety, reducing defect rate or meeting requirements. Conway's law applied: since bio engineers and lab techs move slowly, so did the software org.