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amrochayesterday at 2:45 AM1 replyview on HN

Definitely not the untested code I wrote myself!

Are you kidding me? How many times have you unwillingly introduced bugs into a code base you didn’t fully understand? That’s basically table stakes for software engineering.


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AnthonyMouseyesterday at 2:55 AM

> Definitely not the untested code I wrote myself!

Nobody said it was untested.

> How many times have you unwillingly introduced bugs into a code base you didn’t fully understand? That’s basically table stakes for software engineering.

Which applies just the same to the people the company hired to do it, and now we're back to "the people with a stronger incentive to get it right are the people who die if it goes wrong".

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