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The most deadly bug in history. If you know any other deadly bug, please share! I love these stories!
Not a "bug" per se, but texting while driving kills ~400 people per year in the US. It's a bug at some level of granularity.
To be tongue in cheek a bit, buggy JIRA latency has probably wasted 10,000 human years. Those are many whole human lives if you count them up.
The most deadly bug in history. If you know any other deadly bug, please share! I love these stories!
http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/a.finkelstein/papers/lascase....
> software quality doesn't appear because you have good developers. It's the end result of a process, and that process informs both your software development practices, but also your testing. Your management. Even your sales and servicing. If you only take one thing away from this article, it should be this one! The Therac-25 incident is a horrifying and important part of software history, it's really easy to think t…
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The MCAS related bugs @ Boeing led to 300+ deaths, so it's probably a contender.
Was that a bug or a failure to inform pilots about a new system?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The MCAS related bugs @ Boeing led to 300+ deaths, so it's probably a contender.
Was that a bug or a failure to inform pilots about a new system?
It's almost never just software. It's almost never just one cause.
I strongly believe that we will see an incident akin to Therac-25 in the near future. With as many people running YOLO mode on their agents as there are, Claude or Gemini is going to be hooked up to some real hardware that will end up killing someone. Personally, I've found even the latest batch of agents fairly poor at embedded systems, and I shudder at the thought of giving them the keys to the kingdom to say... a…
Agreed on the future but I think we were headed there regardless.