[indigochill]

> companies might start learning that in 10 years or so after they've replaced a few generations of programmers, nobody knows how anything works, and suddenly software quality starts to actually matter to investors and consumers

I suspect in software specifically, there will never be such a reckoning because compared to maintenance, replacement is too easy.

[onlyrealcuzzo]

> I suspect in software specifically, there will never be such a reckoning because compared to maintenance, replacement is too easy.

Maybe when it's not important to be bug for bug compatible. For most important software, it kind of is.