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by somanyphotons 250 days ago
This is an amazing quote that really applies to all software development
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Drawn from Karpathy killing a bunch of people by knowingly delivering defective autonomous driving software instead of applying basic engineering ethics and refusing to deploy the dangerous product he was in charge of.
In Texas, it's a $5K a day fine to call yourself an engineer, even in a job title on LinkedIn, and actually not be a certified engineer.
has anyone ever been convicted/fined based on this statute?
Well, maybe not all. I’ve definitely built CRUD UIs that were linear in effort. But certainly anything technically challenging or novel.