Brutal observation from the trenches. If planes had the same quality standards as production code, they'd be doing barrel rolls into the tarmac every Tuesday. The difference? Aviation has actual consequences for bugs, while software engineers just push to prod and hope the monitoring alerts go to someone else's Slack. No rollback strategy for a 737 doing a nosedive—just pure, unforgiving physics. Meanwhile, we're out here shipping features with "TODO: fix this later" comments from 2019.