If someone were to write code to their software fixing bugs, how and why can that break other code/features if it’s not meant for that? A common example are Nvidia drivers “breaking” or Microsoft patching one feature but breaking many, many other features.
If code is meant to be hyper specific, how can it affect any other feature?
Exactly. Designs are tangled, causing unexpected explosions in the next building. And when I invite programmers to create less-tangled designs, they scoff and call it “overengineering”.
And then another explosion in the next building.
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(This isn’t the only cause/effect path leading to unexpected defects, but it’s a very common one.)