> We're a clown industry. We only made it this far because, usually, buggy code doesn't kill people and we can iterate and patch things quickly. We never had to do things correctly, we could flourish with abysmal levels of quality acceptance.

What industry do you think is different?

I've had a decent amount of construction work done on my house, and if I had a pound for every shortcut that the guys doing the work took, it would pay for the work they did. And these are the _good_ ones. The bad ones don't even bother following the legal requirements. Somewhat recently [0] it was found that less than half of healthcare workers followed recommendations on _hand washing_.

[0] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/infection-control-an...