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Those megacorps also accumulate endless complexity internally, as does the industry as a whole. It's a problem larger than the discipline of reviewers of C code could ever hope to fix.

Even the larger world outside the field is somewhat aware of the the looming complexity problem: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/09/savin...

Basically on our current trajectory we will end up with something like the biosphere that can do stuff but too complex to fully understand --- but also probably well more fragile than that?



That’s what testing is for. We can’t really reason globally about much smaller codebases either Software is complex.




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