Bug blindness

So much in this article from Dan Luu resonates — it’s like holding up a mirror.

On average, humans have a high ability to ignore negatives in […] their own work or work their company does. For better or for worse, I seem to have the opposite of this and my thoughts immediately go to the flaws in myself and my work

Also:

overall, I don't know that I'd rate anything I've done as good.

Me too, Dan. Me too. (I should probably go to therapy for this, tbh.)

I've seen people and teams with a high degree of quality blindness ship things that have reduced or even no chance of success because of product quality issues. It's one thing to knowingly and deliberately trade off quality for speed, but when I've seen this happen there's always been a kind of quality blindness where everyone involved with the project thinks they're shipping something very high quality when that's not the case.

Been there. Seen that.

it's also easier than ever to improve quality, whether that's better performance, fewer bugs, etc.

But, to do this, you have to actually notice that this is possible, that quality can be improved.

It might be easier than ever from the perspective of automating tedious work, but I’d argue it’s harder than ever from an incentives perspective. It seems fewer and fewer people and organizations have the ability to notice quality issues in the first place, and so there are no incentives to allocate the time or resources to improve them.

I've tried to see if I can get a job somewhere where I just fix quality issues all day. This has never panned out

Dream job. If you’re looking for someone like that, reach out lol.

Some people love to make something. I love making something good.