Comment by lifeisstillgood

>>> We know how to write software with very few bugs (although we often choose not to)

I see this as primarily a social issue - OSS projects are frequently free of the WTF bugs enterprise software can suffer from (things that one lone developer with access to their own OS would never do - call it “I can’t install X so no logging at all happens”) and frequently free of the bugs that a lone developer would slowly fix (call it “proof of concept got released because a rewrite would need approval” bugs). That alone removes entire classes of bugs before we it logic bugs and off by one errors.

The social cost of “is that honestly the best you can do” is enormous, and being part of a dysfunctional organisation allows human nature to stick on “in this place, in this culture - yes”

Chnaging that culture in a small team is possible - at scale it’s really costly