Prison. Bankruptcy. Suicide. How a software glitch ruined lives

Re:Prison. Bankruptcy. Suicide. How a software glitch ruined... by candiodari on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @06:12AM (#39011997)

No they trusted management to be infallible, even when management couldn't redo the calculations of the software manually.

This sort of thing is inevitable once a company is controlled by people who don't understand what the company does.

Management replaced know-how with software, and it mostly worked. Then they probably fired the few remaining people that had the know-how. Then, when it became painfully clear something was wrong, management chose to blame anyone, including to the point of pursuing prison sentences, rather than admitting they didn't know their business and someone made a mistake. They chose to destroy people's lives rather than admit they couldn't do the ONE job they claim they can.

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Re:Prison. Bankruptcy. Suicide. How a software glitch ruined... by jimnotgym on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @10:56AM (#39014779)

> This sort of thing is inevitable once a company is controlled by people who don't understand what the company does.

I think we should examine why this doesn't happen with structural engineering firms.

For the third time on this thread I'm going to say it is because you have to have proper qualifications to do that for a living.

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Re:Prison. Bankruptcy. Suicide. How a software glitch ruined... by BobaFloutist on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @04:06PM (#39019142)

Ok but, for example, Boeing has recently come under fire for poor quality control, which people are blaming on management decisions taking power away from technical experts.

And the enormous Millennium Tower in San Francisco is sinking and tilting.

So it's not unique to software.

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