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Wow! what a great piece.

glad you liked it ^_^.

A bit long, but very interesting! It gives an "extreme" point of view on software development, but not the same extremity we frequently see in other blogs or articles.

...but I can't see it working for the most visible domains. The software that has such a well specified problem domain generally works pretty well. My remote controls don't crash and my phone doesn't often crash - maybe once or twice a year. My car has never crashed (in either sense).

In the visible domains of software development though there is a big difference. It's not like NASA building a bridge with perfect knowlege of the river, the banks and the geology. It's more like trying to build a bridge in the fog when you never know if the river will flood or not - and you've never seen the opposite bank.

If you build software where most of us are doing it then this approach will get you nowhere. We're trying to build something that works despite knowing virtually nothing about the problem domain, not writing software that is flawless for a domain where we know everything.

Great article though.