[rednerrus]

The biggest problem with offshore engineering teams is their dedication to delivering exactly what you ask for. One of the qualities of a good software developer is to take the requirements and interpret what needs to happen then deliver appropriately. Delivering exactly what's written without thinking about the implications is a huge problem and one of the biggest issues I've run into working with offshore teams.

[jkic47]

I agree with you on the problem with offshoring, having done this myself in a previous role in a regulated industry.

However, the offshore team are usually not intended to act as domain experts. In fact, they were very likely explicitly proscribed from interpreting the specifications handed to them to guard against them trying to act as domain experts and delivering something different from expectations.

As such, they were (likely) not the ones who specified that MCAS should silently turn itself on after a pilot turned it off. That misjudgment probably lies with the engineering team who made that design decision, and it had tragic results.

[rramadass]

> However, the offshore team are usually not intended to act as domain experts. In fact, they were very likely explicitly proscribed from interpreting the specifications handed to them to guard against them trying to act as domain experts and delivering something different from expectations.

Finally! Thank you for stating this explicitly.

In safety critical systems specifications are everything and is always done by a team of domain experts to an enormous amount of detail (with optional formal methods verification). The actual coder has to just use the chosen implementation language carefully to meet the specification with no personal interpretations; everything has to be explicit and documented.

[struant]

If just deliver exactly what you are told to, you aren't doing any "engineering" at all.

[datavirtue]

Right,I just spend a little extra time on prompts and get much better, faster, work done completely stress free.

[DanielHB]

Coming from one of those countries where a lot of engineering gets offshored to, the best and brightest engineers in those countries DO have options (no, not just immigrating to a rich country) and won't be a code monkey for multinationals.

I have been to IBM offices in São Paulo a few times and let me just say, although they paid reasonably okay salaries it wasn't the first choice of work for most engineers...

And that is on top of the problems you are describing.

[Log_out_]

Now imagine a constraint written in management legales. "The system has to always augment flight characteristics to avoid system envelope violations. Should the pilot choose to deactivate the system temporarily, the system must return to enhanced flight characteristics as soon as the pilot stops signaling the intent to fly without the system. "