100% with you. Generally posts like these induce the HN crowd blinders, since people who typically post here are sympathetic to software developers. The same software developers who are making money hand over fist. The same software developers who refuse to pay reasonable amounts of money for zero days.

These hackers are fulfilling a market inefficiency whether users here would like to acknowledge that or not.

It’s not the mean hackers or bitcoins fault. The blame should be squarely be placed at the doorstep of all the brilliant engineers who are responsible for the creation of the system architecture but for whatever reason are nowhere to be found when it’s starts to degrade.

This is a major issue with software development that is simply not convenient to discuss because the incentives to frog hop from job to job massively outweigh the benefits of staying on board for the years the job actually requires.

And yes, people will tell you, especially on here, that air tight code is a pipe dream. And maybe so, but the amount of severe deficiencies in code bases that millions of people rely on every day are simply unacceptable. When your earnings report is in the upwards of hundreds of millions, it’s really hard to play stupid.