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Is this really suggesting some developer, buried under tasks and putting extra hours, thought to implement this feature in his free time for months, slipped it
by soco 3y ago
Is this really suggesting some developer, buried under tasks and putting extra hours, thought to implement this feature in his free time for months, slipped it through reviews and scans and pipeline deployments, for... what? Really? I rather prefer to think the comment was sarcasm.
- blackbear_ 3y agoYes it was sarcasm, since it is common for management to shift the blame on individual engineers in these cases (see for example the Volkswagen emissions scandal and the Boeing MAX crash).
- sgerenser 3y agoIIRC Volkswagen actually used the term “rogue engineer” when speaking to the press.
- bluGill 3y agoIn VW's case there was some reason to believe that at first. There are reasons to test an engine in the lab without emissions controls, and so it is believable that a lazy engineer could put in code for the lab that also triggered in real world conditions. Note that the above is only believable before the rest of the investigation. Proper investigation proved the story wrong, but it is just possible enough to believe it could be true if the proper investigation hod come up differently.