Grady Booch revives Weinberg's 1971 quip: software so buggy one woodpecker could destroy civilization
Grady_Booch · x · 2026-10-23
Grady Booch quoted Gerald Weinberg's classic line from The Psychology of Computer Programming (1971): if builders built buildings the way programmers write programs, the first woodpecker would destroy civilization. He added that it's kind of crazy we've tolerated a world where basically all software is insanely buggy and everyone knows it — a pointed remark landing amid ongoing debates over AI-generated code quality.
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