Learning new technologies wasn’t the issue with the Therac. In fact as someone who has been coding and leading sw engineering teams for the past 28 yrs, I don’t like “new technologies”. When someone does this awesome complicated async state machine using a large set of brittle components alarm bells go off and I make it my life’s mission to make it as simple as it needs to be.

A lot of times that is boring meetings to discuss the simplification.

I can extend the same analogy to all the gen ai bs that’s floating around right now as well.