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> I'm not aware of any commercial software project that arrives at the goal "not having any bugs or unforeseen failures at all".

It's ludicrous that we have executives at tech companies that think this is possible.

One S&P 500 company I worked for signed a big contract to deliver bugless software for an enterprise web portal for the state of Minnesota. I was on the team that had to make that magic happen. I had to leave the company not long after that due to nearly life-ending burnout.

So I would throw scorn at the ivory tower inhabitants here who should know better than to suggest that anything of substantial complexity can be bug free

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Maybe the state of Minnesota should have paid more and your company shouldn't have bid what it did



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