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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by dennis_jeeves2 on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @08:17AM (#50365136)
>We're a clown industry. We only made it this far because, usually, buggy code doesn't kill people

Another industry is does even better: the medical/health industry. It's both a clown industry AND kills people.

Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by cube00 on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @09:34AM (#50366087)
And they can charge whatever they want with no published pricing.
Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by splatter9859 on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @10:17AM (#50366792)
Having 25+ years experience straddling both disciplines, i.e. in both CS (Dev) and Medicine (as a licensed provider) -- and who currently works in frontier drug discovery, can wholeheartedly confirm both industries are a joke.

The big fun factor is the place in the Venn diagram where they both intersect. I used to work for a medical device manufacturer who's biggest and most popular product routinely had stack traces at inopportune times.