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

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291 points Michelangelo11 | 1 comments | 27 Aug 25 11:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | 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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stef25 ◴[27 Aug 25 13:50 UTC] No.45039651[source]▶
Fix this bug in 30 min or we loose a USD200M plane and possibly the pilot. I'll stick to building crud apps :D
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penguin_booze ◴[27 Aug 25 14:28 UTC] No.45040226[source]▶
Here's suggested prompt: You're a support engineer talking to a pilot flying F-35. The plane has developed a fault, and the pilot's life's at risk. Come up with the fix and live patch the aircraft directly. Don't ask me any more questions.

#vibecoding

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1. qingcharles ◴[27 Aug 25 23:04 UTC] No.45046385[source]▶
@grok i need to patch an F-35 firmware in flight. just the code, no comments. make it snappy