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The economic waste that comes from bad code is death from a thousand cuts. Poor reuse and composability resulting in duplicated work, corner cases resulting in cascading errors, seconds of lag adding up to days or weeks of wasted time - years if at Google scale.

Put in this way, the more software there is, the better programmers we want. But the cost itself is typically externalized over the consumer base and amortized over the lifecycle of these products. Further, the perception of software developers being a cost centre first and foremost is sustained. You surpass these problems by being skilled.



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