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reality most of the real world successful projects are mostly untested because that's not actually a high ROI endeavor. it kills me to realize that mediocre code you can hack all over to do unnatural things is generally higher value in phase I than the same code done well in twice the time.

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This attitude is why modern software is a continuing controlled flight into terrain.

I think the pendulum swing back is going to be designing code that is harder to make bad.

Typescript is a good example of trying to fix this. Rust is even better.

Deno, I think, takes things in a better direction as well.

Ultimately we're going to need systems that just don't let you do "unnatural" things but still maintain a great deal of forward mobility. I don't think that's an unreasonable ask of the future.

Finger wagging has also failed to produce any solutions.

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