Comment by dzonga
3 days ago
I have never seen an industry that works so hard to self-immolate.
right now the industry is spending billions / trillions of $ on to train A.I on badly written open source code.
in universities we teach kids - DSA - but never about to really think about scoping work nor even the unix principle of how software should compose, how to prevent errors etc. hell how many working professionals know about the 10 NASA principles & actually use them in practice ?
we encourage the bright kids to go work at places which are the cathedrals of complexity - but never seeking simple solutions. & again merchants of complexity get paid more - find it easier to find jobs etc.
the tragedy is the failures are documented, but also the fixes to failures as well.
soon enough we're gonna raise a whole generation who doesn't know how to make reliable, robust software from scratch cz of 'vibecoding'. then ultimately civilization collapses.
> the 10 NASA principles
Could you be more specific?
I think GP means NASA's 10 rules, but these are specifically for C development in mission-critical systems. There's been the odd software issue at NASA, but supposedly their 10 rules should make C projects much safer.