> One mistake doesn’t mean they are completely incompetent.

They are completely incompetent because for something as critical as crowdstrike code, you must build so many layers of validation that one, two or three mistakes don't matter because they will be caught before the code ends up in a customer system.

Looks like they have so little validation that one mistake (which is by itself totally normal) can end up bricking large parts of the economy without ever being caught. Which is neither normal nor competent.

Except this isn’t one mistake. Writing buggy code is a mistake. Not catching it in testing, QA, dogfooding or incremental rollouts is a complete institutional failure

Mistakes are perfectly fine, that's why multiple layers of testing exist

> Mistakes are perfectly fine, that's why multiple layers of testing exist

Indeed. Or in the case of crowdstrike, should exist. Which clearly doesn't for them.

The CTO with a shitty track record, not the line employees. He deserves zero reprieve