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by ninkendo 695 days ago
I think this is debatable, but I understand where you’re coming from.

Personally I think it would be a better world if software were held to the same standards as other engineering disciplines, and we didn’t treat it as somehow less important for software to be correct just because it’s easy to fix. Things would move slower, but we wouldn’t be “spinning our wheels” nearly as much by redoing work and reinventing wheels over and over. A world where software can be considered “done” when it works and is free of bugs sounds amazing to me.

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I see so many mechanical bugs in my farm equipment, I have to question your notion that other engineering disciplines are actually held to a higher standard.