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>>belter+(OP)
Every time I read about space engineering, I'm amazed by how contingencies have contingencies. It's so much careful planning and rigor compared to my world. I can always re-compile, re-deploy and regularly realize that my job is not life or death.

>>notyou+Bc1
Honestly, I'd say most engineering is like that outside of the software world. In the classic engineering disciplines with actual licensures at the end of the pipeline, the responsibility and ethics of this are ingrained into students from day 1. (Budget and importance of the application doesn't always allow for the indulgence of this though, at least to a point.)

This type of thinking also follows from decades of experience.

For some reason the software engineering world largely abandoned esteem and respect for all of the above.

>>Engine+pg1
Errors in software rarely ever matter and even when they do, can usually be trivially corrected.

>>throwa+zB1
Except when they do matter, like the Therac-25 deaths or those 737 MAX crashes.

>>crooke+HC1
If you're referring to MCAS in 737, the software itself wasn't the main problem; I'd say that the main problem was that it wasn't even a documented feature (let alone the engineering of the system itself).

The pilot couldn't even turn MCAS off originally. That's not a software thing, that's a "who the F designed this" thing.