"If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in."

A friend working in office of a big-tech company located in Denmark said "one bad engineer like me working in Copenhagen can put food on the table for 20 Bulgarians working in customer support".

Since that day I always wanted to get into FAANG-type companies, writing buggy code is basically philantropy.

This thread made some people question their no-bugs-allowed ideal, which is apparently a misanthropy…

Facebook release engineering famously kept riskiness scores for each developer and used that as a signal for whether that developer's changes got deployed or instead received extra scrutiny based on a history of broken deployments.