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by jb1991 3179 days ago
> I don't think you can compare software to other disciplines like medical, air transportation or architecture.

Why not? After all, the safety of a pacemaker is largely because of the software it runs. In many cases, medical safety and software safety are nearly the same. And throughout our world, this is true in many industries. Driving. Banking. Our software today is our safety for nearly everything. It will only continue to grow this way.

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I know a little about pacemaker software. They are super conservative and very reluctant to change. For a good reason! But it's certainly not an area where you will get much innovation from. I bet there would no AWS or cloud if they had to file every incident and environment change to an FDA equivalent.
Interesting. Let's discuss this further during your office hours?