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Re:A rogue AI led to a serious security incident at Meta by superb_dev on Thursday March 19, 2026 @04:21PM (#47445379)
I’ve never had respect for the industry as a whole, only individuals within. There has a been a serious lack of rigor and professionalism in software engineering for as long as I’ve been a part of it
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Re:A rogue AI led to a serious security incident at Meta by jihadjihad on Thursday March 19, 2026 @04:34PM (#47445612)
It's a slap in the face that we tack engineering onto it. A very small percentage of software engineering is as rigorous as actual engineering.
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Re:A rogue AI led to a serious security incident at Meta by dgxyz on Thursday March 19, 2026 @05:04PM (#47446059)
As an actual engineer who moved into software "engineering", yes this. It kills me.
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Re:A rogue AI led to a serious security incident at Meta by DANmode on Thursday March 19, 2026 @08:43PM (#47448721)
Top three things lacking?

(In your personal opinion)

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Re:A rogue AI led to a serious security incident at Meta by dgxyz on Friday March 20, 2026 @07:50AM (#47453296)
Fads and fashion over strong, tested technology.

Attitude that you can fix broken stuff later and customers are fine with it.

Charlatans and fuckwits everywhere who wouldn't last a second in a traditional engineering discipline.

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Re:A rogue AI led to a serious security incident at Meta by DANmode on Friday March 20, 2026 @06:13PM (#47461407)
Checks out.

and thank you!

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Re:A rogue AI led to a serious security incident at Meta by rcxdude on Friday March 20, 2026 @12:31AM (#47450521)
As someone who works in a few different engineering disciplines, I think software engineers often have a very rosy picture of other areas of engineering. The problems are different, but things are not any better on average.
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