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This is fascinating. It reminds me of the infamous MCAS on the Boeing 737 MAX. A system was designed, implemented and rigorously tested to be used in a specific

by danvk 3y ago

This is fascinating. It reminds me of the infamous MCAS on the Boeing 737 MAX. A system was designed, implemented and rigorously tested to be used in a specific scenario. A decision was then made much later to use it in a very different scenario without any understanding of the consequences.

TMWNN 3y ago
Another such case is Atari BASIC. Revision A has a bug that causes a crash. Revision B fixed the bug, but the fix was then erroneously applied to similar code elsewhere, causing the same crash much more often than in Revision A!