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by freitasm 18 days ago
I wonder how many bugs will be introduced with these fixes...
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Fix one and add two.

There used to be a brilliant weather app here in Oz back in the early days of iOS. I always loved the update notes the author provided. One was "Fixed one grammatical error and introduced another one, can you find it?"

It depends on how good their testing practices and code review / auditing are. I want to believe they are some of the best in the industry, but that's making assumptions.

But jumping to assumptions that fixes introduce bugs is a bit rash and assumes incompetence / unprofessionality / unmonitored AI usage / kneejerk bugfix processes.

Microsoft (in)famously fired all their QA people like a decade ago.
Most Saas delegated QA to their clients...
They don't introduce bugs. They introduce feature experiences.
That feature experience often crops up as a choose-your-own-adventure game! Looks like their users are loving it [0].

[0] https://www.neowin.net/news/it-admins-feel-overwhelmingly-si...

Emergent product roadmap in action.
I remember some research from IBM that showed that every two bug fixes introduced another bug. Effectively your queue for bugs is twice as long as you think.
No bugs, only intentional backdoors