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It's a market thing too. Company A tries to write perfect code. Company B tries to write something that the users don't hate. Company B wins in the vast majority of cases. Especially when company A these days is stuck with a huge space to investigate.

This isn't unique to coding, but coding has been built on it for decades, with the "safety valve" of "who has the time to check all that?". So defcon speakers and intelligence agencies burn time investigating for weak links that might take months to find, and the rest of the world churns on.

Now you have companies throwing thousands or millions in compute at problems just checking EVERY possible problem and yeeeeup, looks like there's a lot of "good enough, ship it" which is now a major problem for all those companies using that tech.

It's still going to be interesting to see how this develops because, yes, there's a lot of code being written by people who haven't even read it (although the amount of enterprise production level code I've seen that's bad stack overflow copy paste makes me less worried about this), and there's maybe better tools and standards to catch these things (why not spin up a test suite if it's an afternoon of AI poking rather hiring a dev and getting them up to speed?).