I'm really trying to understand your point, but I am failing.
It sounds like you're saying that you shouldn't care as much about the quality of "slow killing software" because in theory it can be made better in the future?
But... it wasn't though? Horizon is a real software system that real developers like you and me built that really killed people. The absolutely terrible quality of it was known about. It was downplayed and covered up, including by the developers who were involved, not just the suits.
I don't understand how a possible solution absolves the reality of what was built.
I teach the horizon post office scandal in my database courses. And my takeaway is, that software fails. And if people's lives are involved, an audit trail is paramount.
In slowly killing software the audit trail might be faster than the killing. In fast killing software, the audit trail isn't.
SCdF|6 months ago
It sounds like you're saying that you shouldn't care as much about the quality of "slow killing software" because in theory it can be made better in the future?
But... it wasn't though? Horizon is a real software system that real developers like you and me built that really killed people. The absolutely terrible quality of it was known about. It was downplayed and covered up, including by the developers who were involved, not just the suits.
I don't understand how a possible solution absolves the reality of what was built.
maweki|6 months ago
In slowly killing software the audit trail might be faster than the killing. In fast killing software, the audit trail isn't.