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Why would you ever, outside flight and medical software, care about being 100% sure that the change did not introduce any bugs?
by KptMarchewa 9mo ago
Why would you ever, outside flight and medical software, care about being 100% sure that the change did not introduce any bugs?
- jacquesm 9mo agoBecause bugs are bad. Fixing one bug but accidentally introducing three more is such a pattern it should have a name.
- KptMarchewa 9mo agoThey are. And we have processes to minimize them - tests, code review, staging/preprod envs - but they are nowhere close to being 100% sure that code is bug free - that's just way too high bar for both AI and purely human workflows outside of few pretty niche fields.
- jacquesm 9mo agoWhen you use AI to 'fix' something you don't actually understand the chances of this happening go up tremendously.
- miningape 9mo agoI propose "the whack-a-hydra" pattern
- jacquesm 9mo agoHehe, yes, very apt. It immediately gives the right mental image.
- bandrami 9mo agoBecause why would you make something broken when you could make something not broken?
- KptMarchewa 9mo agoBecause it's way too high bar to be 100% sure outside of few niche fields.