> This idea that you can get good results from a bad process

This idea is called "evolution"...

> as long as you have good quality control

...and it's QA is death on every single level of the systems: cell, organism, species, and ecosystem. You must consider that those devs or companies with not-good-enough QA will end up dead (from a business perspective).

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dwattttt 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Evolution is extremely inefficient at producing good designs. Given enough time it'll explore more, because it's driven randomly, but most mutations either don't help, or downright hurt an organism's survival.

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rsynnott 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I look forward to software which takes several million years to produce and tends to die of Software Cancer.

Like, evolution is not _good_ at ‘designing’ things.

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bluefirebrand 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

So we're software evolvers now, not engineers?

Sounds like a stupid path forward to me

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dwaltrip 4 days ago | parent [-]

We’ve always been software evolvers. Ideas that have been around for decades, such as “a codebase is a garden”, are even more relevant now.

	▲	monkeyelite 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Iterating on a design is not the same as throwing out crap until it works.