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Eventually there will be an incident with bad software at a hospital or bank that leaves some people dead or broke. Then regulators will take things seriously.

• crumpled 5mo ago
  What regulators?
  • lioeters 5mo ago
    Captured by revolving doors.
  • parpfish 5mo ago
    i could see this being the thing that pushes the US toward licensing softeware developers like other engineering disciplines. gotta get a PE to stamp your LLM-generated code in sensitive environments.
• wing-_-nuts 5mo ago
  Which is why the medical device software industry is so heavily regulated after the Therac-25 incident. Oh, wait, it's not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
  • HeyLaughingBoy 5mo ago
    Wait, what? Then why did I just spend the last few days releasing a slew of documents for a handful of trivial changes to an ancient medical device? Someone should have told me that I could just ignore regulations!
• purerandomness 5mo ago
  This is exactly what Uncle Bob predicted in his talk "The Future Of Programming" [0] 10 years ago, way before LLMs. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecIWPzGEbFc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecIWPzGEbFc