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I often here "edge case" as a defense as to why something hasn't been developed or handled. There's an ongoing trend in software to avoid high hanging fruit and

I often here "edge case" as a defense as to why something hasn't been developed or handled. There's an ongoing trend in software to avoid high hanging fruit and focus on the low hanging big and fast returns. I just accept it now although it bothers me everytime I see it happen. The beauty and allure of science and engineering, to me, is understanding something so well you can predict its future behavior and then predicting it so well you can prevent undesired behaviors and create or improve desired behaviors, within some set of bounds of course.

nomel 5y ago
> I just accept it now although it bothers me everytime I see it happen. That's all fine and dandy if it has no real consequences, which is usually the case. The use cases of ML, increasingly, have very real consequences. I think this current Wild West mentality is great for greasing innovation, but not so great when a self driving car start slamming into poles at sunset, whenever there's a blinking red "Open" sign behind them.