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> people understand the dangers of an electrician mislabelling a fusebox or something, but don't understand the dangers of shoddy software i mean, most softwar
by andrekandre 1y ago
> people understand the dangers of an electrician mislabelling a fusebox or something, but don't understand the dangers of shoddy software
i mean, most software is covered by those big all-caps NO WARRANTY ASSUMED OR IMPLIED / USE AT YOUR OWN RISK
if there was legal recourse for most software issues you can bet the current frenzy around ai-agentic coding would be much more carefully done
i think like many things, laws wont appear until a major disaster happens (or you get a president on your side *)
* https://www.onlinesafetytrainer.com/president-theodore-roosevelt-and-the-pure-food-and-drug-act/ https://www.onlinesafetytrainer.com/president-theodore-roose...
- hiAndrewQuinn 1y agoAnd there is indeed software that is not covered by those tags, plenty of it in fact. It just so happens that it's a few orders of magnitude more expensive, and so you never hear about it until you're actually designing e.g. provably safe firmware for pacemakers and the like.