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Comment by egorfine

3 days ago

writing tests and then meticulously fixing bugs does not increase shareholders' value.

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branko_d  1 day ago

Dave Cutler and his team are a clear counter-example. They famously shipped Windows NT with zero known bugs, which clearly brought enormous shareholder value.

The problem, of course, is that this sort of thing doesn’t bring value next quarter.

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