"The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it." The converse, of course, is that there is typically an order of magnitude more bullshit than truth.

In software, everywhere your model is not aligned with reality, the default is to produce an order of magnitude more code to work around the mismatch than if you had aligned the model. When you are finally forced to realign, you must refute all of that code.