>We're a clown industry. We only made it this far because, usually, buggy code doesn't kill people
Another industry does even better: the medical/health industry. It's both a clown industry AND kills people AND they have made it way beyond what software can only dream.
Having 25+ years experience straddling both disciplines, i.e. in both CS (Dev) and Medicine (as a licensed provider) -- and who currently works in frontier drug discovery, can wholeheartedly confirm both industries are a joke.
The big fun factor is the place in the Venn diagram where they both intersect. I used to work for a medical device manufacturer who's biggest and most popular product routinely had stack traces at inopportune times.
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