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>This matches my experience because you don't chose who you work with. That's what job interviews are supposed to be for. It should be easy to hire only the most skilled programmers, especially with the massive number of unemployed programmers out there right now.
Programming skill is similar to driving skill. You can hire the best people in the world and there'll still be incidents. The people who are most skilled may even be more incident-prone because they have the skills to take more risks. Don't bet the company on no one ever making a mistake. Set up a system where the unintentional risks are minimized and the consequences of inevitable failures are mitigated by seatbelts…
Seat belts are one thing, a car with a top speed of 35 mph is something else entirely.