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by tosti 21 days ago
When more code is written, more bugs are written.

Or, if the act of debugging is removing the bugs from software, then the act of programming is to put the bugs in the software.

2 comments

Yes, "en-bugging" :)
I think "embuggening" has better cromulence.

Use it as a verb, like embiggening. :)

Not necessarily.

Depends on the quality of the code being written.

Quality*Quantity

Yes necessarily. Always. You need to invoke Nasa and fighter jets to find anything coming close, and they only manage to do any better by massive brute overkill in standards & procedures.
There's no plausible level of quality that reduces bugs to zero. More lines being written means more bugs being written, that's a statistical fact.