The Therac-25 Incident (2021)

I worked for hardware manufacturers for most of my career, as a software guy.

In my experience, hardware people really dis software. It's hard to get them to take it seriously.

When something like this happens, they tend to double down on shading software.

I have found it very, very difficult to get hardware people to understand that software has a different ruleset and workflow, from hardware. They interpret this as "cowboy software," and think we're trying to weasel out of structure.

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I think that was the F-35 incident (in Alaska).

The Therac-25 incident was a radiation overdose in Texas.

Whoops, wrong thread :P