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Quite a few actually. I can name two off the top. You've probably never heard of them (why would you, they failed). Saber, and Lucid. Oh, there are certainly others. What kills them is a code base that's too tangled to manage. Estimates grow by an order of magnitude, costs skyrocket, defects mount, customers flee, investors cut their losses.


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