[parpfish]

Eventually there will be an incident with bad software at a hospital or bank that leaves some people dead or broke.

Then regulators will take things seriously.

[purerandomness]

This is exactly what Uncle Bob predicted in his talk "The Future Of Programming" [0] 10 years ago, way before LLMs.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecIWPzGEbFc

[wing-_-nuts]

Which is why the medical device software industry is so heavily regulated after the Therac-25 incident. Oh, wait, it's not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

[HeyLaughingBoy]

Wait, what?

Then why did I just spend the last few days releasing a slew of documents for a handful of trivial changes to an ancient medical device?

Someone should have told me that I could just ignore regulations!

[crumpled]

What regulators?

[parpfish]

i could see this being the thing that pushes the US toward licensing softeware developers like other engineering disciplines.

gotta get a PE to stamp your LLM-generated code in sensitive environments.

[lioeters]

Captured by revolving doors.