Or a meticulous team of very high quality engineers with top notch documentation...

pjmlp · on Dec 20, 2016

In real life most companies don't want to pay for "meticulous team of very high quality engineers with top notch documentation and design practices".

They rather pay for outsourced consultants that deliver something that works within a fixed price contract.

prodigal_erik · on Dec 20, 2016

Knuth's code has bugs. NASA's code has bugs. There's no reason to believe that high quality software engineers even exist.

gpderetta · on Dec 20, 2016

High Quality != 0 bugs.

(Small) teams of high quality engineers do exist, but are very expensive.

wangchow · on Dec 20, 2016

And most humans are lazy f%$#s who throw things away rather than recycling them.