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That's why I don't really (knowingly) want to work on something that could ruin lives if there's a bug. medical devices? Hell no. (But you never know where your
by iforgotpassword 3y ago
That's why I don't really (knowingly) want to work on something that could ruin lives if there's a bug. medical devices? Hell no. (But you never know where your code ends up running.)
As you said this didn't just involve software issues to get that big, but I still wonder how all the devs that worked on this over the years could just shrug it off all these years. You can't tell me not a single dev got wind of these issues. Did they just immediately jump to "impossible I'm the most awesome person on this planet no way there's a problem these people all just stole money". I'd have sleepless nights going over the whole system in my mind trying to figure out where things went wrong. Is this some sort of dunning -kruger going on? I don't really consider myself a coding wizard or anything, but I think I know about enough to know I'll keep producing bugs til the day I die. Rust won't stop logic bugs from happening.
- bigfudge 3y agoPerhaps your humility qualifies you for it! It strikes me that the problems aren’t caused by lack of technical chops per se - it’s almost always because people don’t consider the possible downsides of mistakes and act accordingly.
- guappa 3y agoWell it was basically some banking software… I'm following a BBC podcast about the story, and basically the managers and investigators at the post office knew there were issues. They told every single victim "you're the only one who's claiming there are issues".