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Here is a little fun story:

Last year I was on a flight en-route to an Ed-Tech convention in Philly. There was on board wifi and my phone had the wifi turned on. I go and check my emails before departure and get a debug page from tomcat. My initial reaction was panic, but then I remembered that the wifi runs separately from avionics. After all the mental pictures of the plane going down in flames due to someone leaving a server in DEBUG mode disappeared I simply closed the tab, turned the airplance mode on and went to sleep. Knowing in full that I had put my life in the hands of people who are pressured into writing code that works under impossible deadlines.

That's why I think that just like the romans poisoned themselves over time with lead in their pipes we will kill ourselves with buggy code from shitty projects.




The code I speak about runs in powerplants in several countries. Non-nuclear, though, and has nothing to do with industrial automation.

Yes, shitty code will be our demise. I bet on AI.


AI? LOL. It will be some cron job running off some defense contractor's forgotten ubuntu 7 server with the password password123.




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