In most companies, businesspeople without any real software dev experience control the purse strings. Such people should never run companies that sell life-or-death software.
The reality is there is plenty of space in the software industry to trade off velocity against "competent" software engineering. Take Instagram as an example. No one is going to die if e.g. a bug causes someone's IG photo upload to only appear in a proper subset of the feeds where it should appear.
The reality is there is plenty of space in the software industry to trade off velocity against "competent" software engineering. Take Instagram as an example. No one is going to die if e.g. a bug causes someone's IG photo upload to only appear in a proper subset of the feeds where it should appear.
There's a lot of incompetence by choice.