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> Humans need to be able to overrule anything, anytime. This needs to be a guiding principle of anyone who builds any sort of software.
by tharne 5y ago
> Humans need to be able to overrule anything, anytime.
This needs to be a guiding principle of anyone who builds any sort of software.
- anoncake 5y agoThis. "I can't do this, the computer doesn't let me" ought to be as absurd a statement as "I can't do this, the intern doesn't let me".
- RotaryTelephone 5y agoEspecially in avionics...
- kwyjobojoe 5y agoSaab sells a plane where moving the controls manually does not disable the autopilot....
- nijave 5y agoI'm not sure this is necessarily a good rule of thumb. There are plenty of times humans need to be protected from themselves--that's why regulation exists to prevent fraud, etc. It'd be ludicrous for a single sales employee to override payments right into their personal account. It is SOFTware so it can always be changed. The question becomes who can do the changes and when (which ends up being much trickier to answer)