Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt
by dumah on Thursday November 05, 2026 @08:45AM
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You’re twisting words here.
If a new jet completes extensive flight testing and has flown around the world but has undiscovered engineering flaws, “it’s working”.
Meeting verification and validation requirements in a sound engineering development program should certainly get you to “it’s working”, whether there are undiscovered engineering flaws or not.
Anything men build is subject to failure and unknown unknowns - so nothing works?
If a new jet completes extensive flight testing and has flown around the world but has undiscovered engineering flaws, “it’s working”.
Meeting verification and validation requirements in a sound engineering development program should certainly get you to “it’s working”, whether there are undiscovered engineering flaws or not.
Anything men build is subject to failure and unknown unknowns - so nothing works?