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  • Machines will do exactly what you tell them to do and is the cause of many software bugs. That’s kind of the problem, no matter how elegant the algorithm, fuzzy goes in, fuzzy comes out. It was clear this very basic principle was not even considered when Google started telling people to eat rocks and glue. You can’t patch special cases out when they are so poorly understood.









  • It is scary easy to leave a shared variable by a novice programmer or to misunderstand caching and cache collisions by the same group. It is part of learning, the scary part is that most profit driven companies see it as cost of doing business and have them on the front lines of production code. In order to push out code faster and cheaper QA and unit testing suffers and the consumers are the ones that end up with the highest risk.

    Some companies reputations do get affected to the point it affects business or partnerships (see Wyze cameras and their removed recommendations from tech sites) but something needs to change and regulation is light on fines for companies doing this over and over (along with data breaches).








  • Developer1: @developer2: could you take a look, I know u know stuff about this.

    Developer2: can’t reproduce. Might be able to if I get the app logs in trace level, the blood of 3 dragons and a signed autograph of Michael Jordan’s third hello world program.

    User1: here are some other unrelated logs at info level only and nothing else.

    Git bot: clozed y’all.