Re:The Therac-25 Incident
by rowanG077 on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @08:32PM
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I think the opposite. The only reason software quality emerges is because of good developers. It's a prerequisites. Process helps good developers deliver quality. But there is no process that allows a team of bad developers deliver quality. you can't squeeze blood from a stone.
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That's true, but even so - great developers still make mistakes, and if they don't hear about production errors because of a breakdown in the customer communications from sales etc, then those mistakes will never be fixed.
It's not that great developers aren't necessary for software quality, more that they aren't sufficient.