When describing infrastructure, words matter. When you describe something as “hyper critical infrastructure” it implies that tens to thousands of human beings w

When describing infrastructure, words matter. When you describe something as “hyper critical infrastructure” it implies that tens to thousands of human beings will die within seconds of failure of said “hyper critical” infrastructure. The way the rest of your comment is worded implies that’s not what you’re actually describing and makes the words “hyper critical infrastructure” irresponsible for you to use. I don’t mean to imply there is some kind of failure magnitude competition, I just want to reinforce that software “engineering” already has a huge problem with abject neglect of the learnings that other sign-and-stamp engineering fields have already learned from and fixed. Us code slingers are not in uncharted territory, we just need to learn from our predecessors and peers that build literal bridges and towers and force management to treat our field in the same way.