What Jennifer Pahlka thinks about software quality

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Author of Recoding America; founded Code for America and was US deputy chief technology officer from 2013 to 2014.

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1. 27 Apr 2026

   Our readingProlonging a failing system's lifespan only makes its eventual collapse worse.

   Their wordsExtending the lifespan of a brittle system just means the system eventually fails more spectacularly.

   ↗A (shorter) Three Horizons Framework for Government Reformeatingpolicy.com 3rd of 3 in this piece