”This isn’t unique to cars, every software project looks easy at the start, you can even get “90%” there where it looks and feels like a real solution. But then

”This isn’t unique to cars, every software project looks easy at the start, you can even get “90%” there where it looks and feels like a real solution. But then real life usage testing starts or the implementation process exposes a thousand small problems you didn’t except in the last 10%, or your own original design wasn’t flexible enough for some constraints requiring a significant rethinking of that 90%.” Yep, and in silicon valley, anyone who seriously plans for the consequences of this is dismissed as insufficiently futurist. It’s hard to thrive as a responsible engineer when there’s always another huckster around the corner, willing to promise that 5-year future today.