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The 737 Max crashes weren't the result of failures in software development. As far as the crashes go, the software engineers built the system they were asked to
by MaxBarraclough 6y ago
The 737 Max crashes weren't the result of failures in software development. As far as the crashes go, the software engineers built the system they were asked to build, and the problems were at a higher level than the software (i.e. aeronautical engineering and systems engineering).
Software issues have since been discovered, but aren't thought to have been related to the crashes, as I understand it.
This topic arose 10 days ago over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25220302 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25220302
- Veserv 6y agoI actually happen to agree with you, but I deliberately decided to take the worst possible interpretation of the lowest reliability system (that is worse by orders of magnitude than the average) to highlight the differences in outcome. If the absolute dead-last system, a system that most would view as shameful and many an unconscionable deathtrap, is an order of magnitude better than best-practices in commercial software, it is probably not a good idea to learn from commercial software vendors or use any knowledge based on their inexperience as they can not even consistently make systems as unreliable as an unconscionable deathtrap, so there is no reason to believe they actually know how to make systems of higher reliability than that.