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Re:The Therac-25 Incident by ZaoLahma on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @05:51AM (#45037428)
Replace the "hire poor developers" with "use LLM driven development", and you have the rough outline for a perfect Software Engineering horror movie.

It used to be that the poor performers (dangerous hip-shootin' code commitin' cowpokes) were limited in the amount of code that they could produce per time unit, leaving enough time for others to correct course. Now the cowpokes are producing ridiculous amount of code that you just can't keep up with.

Re:The Therac-25 Incident by ponector on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @05:48PM (#45045739)
Isn't it a future we are moving to? To hire poor (cheap) developers to do LLM-driven development.
Re:The Therac-25 Incident by Cthulhu_ on Thursday August 28, 2025 @05:09AM (#45050049)
This is why at every software project I've done in the past 15 odd years, steps were taken to prevent this in an automated and standardized fashion; code reviews of course, but they're more for functionality. Unit test requirements, integration / end-to-end tests based on acceptance criteria, visual regression tests, linting, type systems, OTAP, CI/CD, audit log via Git and standardized commit messages, etc etc etc.

My job hasn't significantly changed with AI, as AI generated code still has to pass all the hurdles I've set up while setting up this project.