Software Development Is Just a Sequence of Embarrassing Bugs

Here’s the truth I’ve learned as both a business professor and a software builder:

software development isn’t elegant. It’s a series of embarrassing bugs.

You fix one thing, and something else breaks.

Then you fix that, and another part stops working.

It feels endless—because it is.

People imagine progress as a straight line.

But real progress looks like this:

bug → fix → new bug → fix → embarrassment → repeat.

Even the best systems fail (remember the Bill Gates Windows demo crash?).

Even the most robust organizations—yes, including nuclear power plants—plan for things to go wrong.

So why do…

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