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Re:Whistleblowers: Software keeping inmates in Arizona priso... by varenc on Monday February 22, 2021 @01:36PM (#26228412)
If there’s penal consequences for bad software, you can bet that the development cost will easily 10x overnight.
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Re:Whistleblowers: Software keeping inmates in Arizona priso... by oftenwrong on Monday February 22, 2021 @02:27PM (#26229250)
Is there a better option? This is software that has to 100% work in order to be trusted. If the software cannot be trusted, additional process has to fill in to verify the decisions the software is making. There's no way to deliver a good solution cheaply.
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Re:Whistleblowers: Software keeping inmates in Arizona priso... by TedDoesntTalk on Monday February 22, 2021 @02:45PM (#26229535)
All software has bugs. This is the mantra we are taught and for a good reason.

The answer is human oversight.

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Re:Whistleblowers: Software keeping inmates in Arizona priso... by TedDoesntTalk on Monday February 22, 2021 @02:44PM (#26229520)
I wouldn’t work on such software.
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Re:Whistleblowers: Software keeping inmates in Arizona priso... by dimitrios1 on Monday February 22, 2021 @02:57PM (#26229716)
You would for 10x the salary.
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