Hearing talk of how AI is causing software quality to plummet, the most disturbing thing for me is that software quality—when considered next to other engineering disciplines—has never been very good.

I’ve long said “If we built bridges like we build software, people would die.” but more and more, people depend on software to work in critical situations just like we depend on bridges to not kill us when the wind blows too hard.

Relatively, this software quality slide is even more terrifying.