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Bugs are inevitable. Humans can't write more than a few dozen lines without making a mistake - it's inevitable because we're barely sentient apes, floundering to understand the full scope of the problem space
But through methodology, bugs can be mitigated. You can reduce their number, and fail gracefully. We have countless ways to do it, and we teach how widely
There's a science to it all, and those of us worth our salt know it... It's not our fault that management disregards our warnings and pushes ever tighter deadlines.
We know how to do better, our warnings just fall on deaf ears far more often then not