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F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before crash

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278 points Michelangelo11 | 1 comments | 27 Aug 25 11:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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yellow_lead ◴[27 Aug 25 12:24 UTC] No.45038691[source]▶
> Five engineers participated in the call, including a senior software engineer, a flight safety engineer and three specialists in landing gear systems, the report said.

I can't imagine the stress of being on this call as an engineer. It's like a production outage but the consequences are life and death. Of course, the pilot probably felt more stressed.

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refactor_master ◴[27 Aug 25 13:17 UTC] No.45039282[source]▶
“I vibe coded that part, but all the tests passed”
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Rendello ◴[27 Aug 25 13:46 UTC] No.45039610[source]▶
How do you think they wrote the tests? ;)
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1. nobleach ◴[27 Aug 25 15:51 UTC] No.45041321[source]▶
Seeing tests written by Claude/Gemini really frustrate me sometimes. They'll go to great lengths to make tests pass. Somtimes even just testing console/stdout logging. On the other hand, when I've written failing tests and told the tools to write implementations to make the tests pass, I've had some really good results. Sadly that's the part I enjoy the most so I really don't want to delegate that to a tool.