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Programming is fun. Bug fixing is not. Selfish programmers, however talented, don't fix bugs.
Filtering out selfish talented programmers is not easy. Yet they probably are the reason why organizations get paranoid.
An extreme solution is to make sure bugs are fixed (somehow) BEFORE new code is created ; selfish programmers won't stand the heat very long.
Fortunately test suites, automatized non regression testing, is becoming popular.
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Programming is fun. Bug fixing is not. Selfish programmers, however talented, don't fix bugs.
Filtering out selfish talented programmers is not easy. Yet they probably are the reason why organizations get paranoid.
An extreme solution is to make sure bugs are fixed (somehow) BEFORE new code is created ; selfish programmers won't stand the heat very long.
Fortunately test suites, automatized non regression testing, is becoming popular.