Boeing rant
What's hiring bar at Boeing? Is it C hires D? Your software bugs killed so many innocent people. How can you sleep at night? Are engineers incompetent or the leadership is forcing to cut corners? What's the guarantee that there are no other undiscovered bugs and Ds are competent to find them?
So you're telling me that devs at top companies never have bugs? Or are you saying that devs at top companies do have bugs and that their work is so irrelevant in the grander scheme of things that the public never notices?
It’s not C D or F, just hubris.
Boeing is always trying to hire the cheapest work available
So true
Hiring bar for new grads is just a good gpa. But at the same time I'm pretty sure hiring bar doesn't translate into reliable software. Seriously still waiting for my Android, Google maps, google assistant, Google drive to not be glitchy af.
Get an iPhone. 😛
No I don't want a downgrade.
To people comparing Boeing's software to mobile apps above, you need to understand that companies developing these mobile apps prioritize for development velocity instead of testing because a slight glitch in Amazon shopping app won't kill anyone. Boeing does not release new features every few weeks, and it is expected from them to thoroughly test their software and hardware before they sell their aircraft.
It was not a software bug. MCAS was not documented properly and pilots were not trained about MCAS properly. Faulty sensor hardware does not mean software bug . Not everything is a software problem. Turning the trim wheel disengages MCAS. Pilots did not know that.
A horrible idea. It is 100% the fault of MCAS software designers and developers. When MCAS is highly critical like that, the notification/training portion should be the no.1 design priority for MCAS people. It is their fault.
AOA sensor that feeds it's data to MCAS HAS A malfunction subroutine in form of a warming light and buzzer. Guess want that costs 80k extra .manufacture equipment malfunction takes 80k to report .fuck me . Software ppl are not negligent . Software was designed adequately.
Frankly I can’t imagine how stressful it would be to work on software that could kill somebody if it malfunctions. No thank you.
I feel like every system should be like autopilot on a car. The computer can drive, sure, but the moment you tap the brakes, the autopilot should let up. No system should say, oh yeah, I feel that you want to pull up but no- were going to dive now. That said, I'm making it a career goal never to work on software where my bugs could kill someone.
I feel like designing a modern commercial aircraft is more complicated than your express app