Re:The decline of high-tech manufacturing in the United States
by potato3732842 on Monday August 18, 2025 @05:56AM
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The problem is that the idiots making their stupid cog in the machine decisions have a financial and ideological incentive not to see themselves, their work and the way they've been trained to approach their work.
Some two bit code monkey screeching "it's not my fault my code shit all over the production database when something upstream of it got a little wonky, I coded to the spec I was given" is no different than some dumbass middle manager or MBA at HQ who's intentionally making the system more shitty for negligible, but measurable, savings so they can fuck off into the sunset with their bonus for hitting KPI before it all comes crashing down.
Re:The decline of high-tech manufacturing in the United States
by ethbr1 on Monday August 18, 2025 @08:46AM
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The meta problem is the present-immaterial nature of risk and possible future consequences. Dollars and time saved are concrete present quantities.
Ergo, any decision which saves dollars and time in the present but increases future risk looks good... in the present.
It's always surprised me that businesses don't attempt to quantify risk in an effort to produce a more balanced decision function.
There is big support of these models from consulting world. If it doesn't work than it just means we need further micro components to make it work but never try back to integrated system.