[HeWhoLurksLate]

For starters, the whole 'NOT FIT FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE EVEN THOUGH YOU PAY FOR IT TO DO THESE SPECIFIC THINGS' contract thing needs to go die.

WRT engineering- if someone walks into a production cell and a robot swings and hits them in the head, guess who generally gets the blame in an investigation? The group that somehow didn't put safety scanners or a cell wall with door interlocks or didn't use safety-rated equipment.

There's a big difference between "guys, please get out of the way before I make the bot move" and "guys, I can't make the bot move until you're out of the way and the door is closed and latched" and worst-case scenario, that difference can be any number of human lives.

Surely things can improve, but it'll take time, dedication, and sucking it up and rewriting legacy code and probably being slower at pushing features out. (Keep in mind this isn't a universal guidebook- and should mostly be for companies that create software and infrastructure that is or can be life-critical.)