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by tarruda 846 days ago
The last 20% is a blocker for autonomous cars because it can cause lives to be lost.
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Sure, but not all programming is building webapps either. There are many high stakes environments, with real consequences.

Additionally as the ball of mud grows, making slight but subtle changes to the system will get subsequently harder and harder to describe to the point where the tradeoff from using english is higher than flipping some code (imo).