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>might have "thousands" of times more software

He said thousands of times more lines in each piece of software, not thousands of times more software.

>That's because today's software is significantly less broken than the software of yore.

As a per-line measurement, yes. As a per-program measurement, not even close. Nor as a per-feature measurement, because those 1000x locs are largely going into abstraction layers at the bottom of the stack and chrome at the top.



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