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loup-vaillant 4 hours ago

> Changing 1% of code on top of that is probably not really that much compared

Quite a few companies have millions and millions of lines of code. Changing 1% of it would mean changing more than 10K lines of code, perhaps even more than 100K. In much bigger code bases, where changing anything has a risk of breaking something — not just because you might make a mistake, but because your program is full of Undefined Behaviour, and changing anything might manifest latent bugs.

Given that, I'm not surprised people say that Sutter quote with a straight face.