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by orochimaaru 298 days ago
Learning new technologies wasn’t the issue with the Therac. In fact as someone who has been coding and leading sw engineering teams for the past 28 yrs, I don’t like “new technologies”. When someone does this awesome complicated async state machine using a large set of brittle components alarm bells go off and I make it my life’s mission to make it as simple as it needs to be.

A lot of times that is boring meetings to discuss the simplification.

I can extend the same analogy to all the gen ai bs that’s floating around right now as well.