Argument-by-disaster is terrible when it's shallow and leads people to jump to conclusions too soon. Spectacular success and spectacular failure can both be ill

Argument-by-disaster is terrible when it's shallow and leads people to jump to conclusions too soon. Spectacular success and spectacular failure can both be illustrative in their own way. The only problem I have with Therac-25 is that it's overused, surely we have other catastrophic programming examples?