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This. The industry is a hot-pot of gut feelings/seat of my pants mixed with true engineering and mathematical rigor.

It is all hit or miss. Everyone claims they do high-quality, critical software in public, while in private, they claim the opposite, that they are fast and break things, and programming is an art, not math.

And then you have venture capital firms now pushing "vibe coding."

Software development is likely the highest variance engineering space, sometimes and in some companies, not even being engineering, but "vibes."

It is interesting how this is going to progress forward. Are we going to have a situation like the Quebec Bridge [https://colterreed.com/the-failed-bridge-that-inspired-a-sim...]. The Crowdstrike incident taking down the whole airspace proved that is not enough. Market hacks in "decentralized exchanges," the same. Not sure where we are heading.

I guess we are waiting for some catastrophe that will have some venture capital liable for the vibe coding, and then we will have world wide regulation pushed on us.




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