[xupybd]

Context matters.

What is the cost of a bug getting into the wild vs what is the cost of keeping the bug rate very low?

If you're NASA or a high frequency trading company I'm guessing the cost of bugs can be very high. If you're making internal tools to automate admin tasks the cost of bugs is often very low.

[akyoan]

> If you're NASA

I don’t think it's fair to pick something extra-ordinary to respond to the article. Obviously "no worries" doesn't apply if the stakes are high.

[xupybd]

I'm not trying to say it's binary. That you're either NASA or your quality doesn't matter. NASA is only the furthest on one end of the scale that I could think of. There is a scale and you have to know where you are. There is always a trade off between the amount of work you can get done and the amount of QA process you have in place. With infinite resources it wouldn't matter but us programmers are expensive.