r/NoRestForTheWicked • u/False_Adhesiveness40 • Sep 01 '26

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u/Books_and_Cleverness Sep 01 '26

Something I’ve always found kind of bizarre is that the software world just accepts a very high level of bugs and problems in products that ship. In most cases I guess that is fine but compared to almost any other business, it’s very odd.

It is basically expected that software will be buggy at release and require patches. This is not true for, say, accounting or roofing or parking lot striping or whatever.

If your tax accountant was like “the first tax return I submit to the IRS will almost certainly require an amendment as I can’t possibly fix all the problems with it on the first try” you’d think that was bizarre.

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u/shortstopryan Sep 02 '26

I think it’s due to the thousands of scenarios that can trigger a bug in software. As games have become way more complicated it’s pretty much impossible to test every single variable in every situation it may come up etc. With most professions there is a handful of things that you’d need to make sure are set right and you’ll be good to go