If someone were to write code to their software fixing bugs, how and why can that break other code/features if it’s not meant for that? A common example are Nvidia drivers “breaking” or Microsoft patching one feature but breaking many, many other features.

If code is meant to be hyper specific, how can it affect any other feature?

  • Zephyr@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    I’ll give you a real world analogy. Have you ever tried to balance rocks? You can get two or three rocks balanced but that could put one of the lower balance points out of balance. It’s like that. That is the assumption that code has a singular dependence and it’s all linear is incorrect in most circumstances. Code often has many dependencies and many other parts depending on it.