[abernard1]

> The space of possibilities is much greater and we somehow need to write software that still works.

But the cost of failure is much lower, and that's why we as an industry can be so mediocre.

Physical engineering organizations have profit margins in the single digits to low tens. Software has margins in the 50s to 80s and marginal unit costs of zero. If any physical engineering organization had employees of the skill of our current SaaS software market, they'd be out of business immediately because no other industry but software can absorb such frequent and dramatic failures.