The $85 Billion Cost of Bad Code

Published

2018-12-30 11:00

Collected

2026-07-05 05:20

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id: 3411
title: "The $85 Billion Cost of Bad Code"
source_domain: hackerone.com
source_url: "https://www.hackerone.com/blog/85-billion-cost-bad-code"
published_at: "2018-12-30T11:00:00Z"
tags: ["code-review", "technical-debt", "stripe", "code-quality", "pullrequest", "developer-productivity"]
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# The $85 Billion Cost of Bad Code

## Summary

A Stripe and Harris Poll study found developers spend 42% of their time on technical debt and maintenance, with bad code costing $85 billion annually. Healthy code review processes help address this.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** hackerone.com
- **Published:** 2018-12-30T11:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://www.hackerone.com/blog/85-billion-cost-bad-code
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/3411