What? Who are we in this case? Because we as a community do know how to. The question is does our Stakeholders know that it may cost more and do they even care?
This really pisses me off. Do you think civil engineers would build unsafe bridges because “stakeholders” told them to? No, because they would go to fucking jail.
We are a fucking disgrace. We need software liability laws because apparently we can’t stand up for ourselves and our profession.
I was being deliberately combative, but there’s a kernel of truth. Our discipline had been at it for decades and we have no idea how to write maintainable, secure, usable software. Most of the things we write are neither of those things, despite our very best efforts. As an engineering discipline, we failed miserably.
That said, AI is definitely not going to improve things. It’s going to make things worse. Much much worse.
I mean, have you seen “professionally developed software” up close?
At least the AI slop is improving.
Full Molotov Von Ribbentrop.
I don’t get it. Can someone explain this to me?
I feel bad for Haiti, they’ve been dealt a shit hand from the very beginning. But it’s been crisis after crisis since Spanish times.
And for the tech stuff, Vannevar Bush’s 1947 Atlantic article gets you 95% of the way there.
None of this was a particularly hard prediction.
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