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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
Move Fast And Break Things^TM

Jokes aside I think it's mostly a value/cost thing. NASA's software has different requirements and failure scenarios than most software developers (in this context I will not call them software engineers) have to care about. Verifiable correctness is harder to predict, and in most devs' roles it's easier to just try something and see what happens, rather than know what'll happen up front.