Most conditional branches in software are strongly biased toward one outcome rather than close to fifty-fifty.

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• A control evaluation that reports under one per cent risk should be read as several per cent, because the evaluation can itself fail. BSBuck Shlegeris7 May 2024
• The traditional split between a stable branch and an unstable branch may no longer be the right way to develop software. SSSalvatore Sanfilippo22 Jul 2026
• In many software categories more than half of all prospects are now in market at once, against a historical three to five percent. JLJason Lemkin1 Jan 2026
• As software projects grow more numerous, fast-moving, and interdependent, cross-project regressions become practically inevitable. NENelson Elhage9 Mar 2025
• Software bugs most often arise at boundaries where reality does not respect the divisions assumed by the source code. KRKenneth Reitz17 Jul 2026

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