I work for a heavily regulated company that is focused on regulatory compliance. What that means is a focus on trying to prevent issues from getting into production code.

To me this is an impossible standard. This standard requires human omniscience. So we spend a ridiculous amount of time looking for possible problems instead of solving known problems.

I'd rather the focus was reversed: focus on fixing known problems rather than trying to prevent possible problems.

But regulators have a different incentive. And they're the reason we do what we do.

I need a new job.