[jiggawatts]

If people developing a system that controls two-ton death machines get their panties in a twist about having to demonstrate basic competency in a memory-unsafe language… it’s probably good that they quit.

Airline pilots don’t quit in a huff because they have to demonstrate basic competency annually.

[thwayunion]

This take might have more credibility if Tesla weren't facing criminal charges for its failure to deliver autopilot.

[nxm]

Criminal? No one is going to jail for failure to deliver on a very difficult AI problem

[thwayunion]

> Criminal?

Yes: https://www.reuters.com/legal/exclusive-tesla-faces-us-crimi...

> failure to deliver on a very difficult AI problem

It's the combination of claims that the feature could be delivered and a failure to deliver.

Failure is never illegal. Lying about failure often is.