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by monkpit 5 days ago
And what percentage of the software in the world needs to come close to human-quality code? I’d argue the percentage of the whole is VERY low.
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The whole point is that if you don't maintain high quality, any software will degrade to the point where the factory breaks. "Human-quality" here isn't quite the right measure because human software factories also bog down in exactly this way.
I’d say all of them. Most people use computers as tools or as entertainment platforms. While a bug may not be life threatening in most cases, it is annoying and stress generating.