Key part is *where reliability matters*, there are not that many cases where it matters.

We tell stories of Therac 25 but 90% of software out there doesn’t kill people. Annoys people and wastes time yes, but reliability doesn’t matter as much.

E-mail, internet and networking, operations on floating point numbers are only kind of somewhat reliable. No one is saying they will not use email because it might not be delivered.

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iugtmkbdfil834 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

<< 90% of software out there doesn’t kill people.

As we give more and more autonomy to agents, that % may change. Just yesterday I was looking at hexapods and the first thing it tells you ( with a disclaimer its for competitions only ) that it has a lot of space for weapon install. I had to briefly look at the website to make sure I did not accidentally click on some satirical link.

	▲	ozim 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Main point is that there is many more lines of code of CRUD business apps running on AWS and instances of applications than even non-autonomous car software even though we do have lots of cars.

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cobbal 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

We guarantee 5 nines of uptime, and 1 nine of not killing people

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wussboy 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Most code will not kill people, but a lot of code could kill a business.