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You ever get the feeling that companies and programmers who become massively productive and profitable are either finding a narrow path where there are no concerns like the other discussions here, or simply ignoring them and ploughing on with a pile of faulty code that mostly works?

Look how much discussion there is over a few thousand nanoseconds here, edge cases around 16 digit numbers (if my bank account gets that high, and you accidentally round it up to too many digits, we can deal with that when it happens).

It seems inconcievable that the most 'productive' can spend this much effort on everything they do, and 'pick your battles' only goes so far towards explaining it. 'Move fast and break things' goes farther but only in the space of possibilities where correct vs incorrect has approximately no consequences.

"Companies with unicorn valuations are most probably doing things which don't have to be done very well"?