21 Jun 23
One shall not obsess with the game controller they use, I suppose, in their analysis, failing the controller wouldn’t prevent the sub from resurfacing… It is symptomatic, however. The whole Silicon Valley is like that. You have the old guard, NASA, millions for fault analysis, rumors go the C code on some NASA rocket was certified at $1000 per line—human eyeballs reading it…
All those start-ups and unicorns, though. Just do it, when to be a hacker became an honorific, a title… Code your stuff, design your mechanics at Starbucks, who needs mathematics and physics when we can have s*t done instead. Who needs signing-off when we can have a carate-belt meeting standing on bouncing balls instead…
I don’t want to be the dean of the faculty of prophecy but this is only the beginning. Wait until those autopilots starts using ChatGPT/Stack Overflow/copy/pasted code…