Comment by geocar

> it’s that we can’t just build a better programmer, for the reason that I then went on to outline.

Apologies for missing your point. I thought you meant by this:

> The reason for that is because large projects can’t have only one developer.

... that you meant we would have to change more things in our business and software cultures rather than just making programmers smart (something I could agree with), not that you believed this was some kind of truism.

I don’t believe this is true. Why are you convinced it is impossible to do “big” things without big teams of idiots?

> Historically, C is often not trusted for software where people’s lives are on the line. Thus bringing up doctors is a great example of how building a better programmer is not good enough.

I don’t see how one of these things has to do with the other. Can you explain the link?