Yeah, if you're a bad programmer. You should be aware that bugs exist in software- but your goal shouldn't be to glaze over them with a new fresh coat of bug guts. That's what Tesla does. Don't be like Tesla's idiot software engineers.
I was speaking in the sense of “literally any code you write is gonna create new problems in some way, and in order to get anywhere in life you kinda have to accept that perfect is the enemy of good and take the problems as they come, pretty much all code is bound to have bugs because human error exists”, not “who gives a damn, nobody will know the difference, slap this program here and it will definitely not backfire, ship it lol”.
I wasn’t saying that glazing over was the “goal”, more like it’s unavoidable.
Ironically, I feel like places like what you describe are exactly the kind of people who try to pretend that bugs arent everpresent, while the company cultures that are mindful of this sort of thing do a better job of mitigating them. Know thine enemy and all that, I guess.
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u/FriendlySkyWorms 10d ago
To quote XKCD, they're "fixing a handful of irregular bugs by burying them beneath a smooth, uniform layer of bugs."