Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "John Carmack: Best programming setup and IDE | Lex Fridman Podcast Clips" video.

The real reason is that they aren't interested in paying for code that works as advertised without numerous bugs. Fixing bugs is always a lot harder to get funded than new features. Even in opensource there's often far more interest in new features with bugs being mostly fixed by programmers that are either being hurt by them, or who have a passion for the project.
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@digiryde Even without those moments at the end of the day, you're trying to code something that runs the way that you want it to run. Even if what you're doing is theoretically correct, it doesn't much matter if there's some sort of bug in the compiler that does something you weren't wanting.
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@publicacct5626 If you've got it set up where you have to run the entire thing at once in order to debug it, then you've got a problem. And yes, of course there are things that are going to pop up at scale that wouldn't be a problem with smaller scale builds, but if you haven't fixed those smaller scale builds and deployments, then why would you assume that a larger deployment isn't going to have massive problems?
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