--- title: "Why Your Best Engineers Write the Most Bugs, CodeGood" url: https://daily.dev/posts/why-your-best-engineers-write-the-most-bugs-codegood-dvjitefpa source_url: https://codegood.co/writing/why-your-best-engineers-write-the-most-bugs.html type: article source: "CodeGood" published: 2026-02-01T08:36:55.934Z updated: 2026-02-01T08:39:34.747Z tags: ["productivity", "leadership"] reading_time: 40 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Why Your Best Engineers Write the Most Bugs, CodeGood **[CodeGood](https://daily.dev/sources/codegood)** · 40 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary High-performing engineers often introduce more bugs than their peers, not due to carelessness but because they ship more code, tackle harder problems, and take calculated risks. Organizations that optimize for low bug counts inadvertently incentivize engineers to avoid ambitious work. The optimal bug rate isn't zero—it's the rate that emerges when engineers work on appropriately challenging problems at sustainable pace. Effective quality management focuses on customer-impacting incidents, recovery time, and business value delivered rather than raw bug counts. Bugs serve as valuable diagnostic information about problem difficulty and risk distribution when interpreted correctly. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [How good engineers write bad code at big companies](https://daily.dev/posts/how-good-engineers-write-bad-code-at-big-companies-my1zgfefc) · Hacker News · 3 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#productivity](https://daily.dev/tags/productivity), [#leadership](https://daily.dev/tags/leadership) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/why-your-best-engineers-write-the-most-bugs-codegood-dvjitefpa)