[benashford]

> It daunts me too, and reminds me of the early-days of commercial flight. I hope we'll have a similar "we cannot continue like this moment".

The first citation of the words "Software Crisis" meaning the inherent difficulty of writing high-quality software in a predictable way was from a NATO conference fifty years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_crisis

It is taking a long time for good practices to be discovered and win-out, and even when obvious improvements have been made, they're not necessarily used effectively.

I suspect a large part of the reason why the software industry isn't maturing at the same speed that other industries have had to, is that in software, failure is much easier to hide.