Brian Dukes

1380 days ago

One line summarizes the comic (and the sentiment that I saw on Twitter): “I don’t quite know how to put this, but our entire field is bad at what we do, and if you rely on us, everyone will die.” Software engineers don’t literally believe this. But it also rings true. What do we mean?

Why are we so bad at software engineering?

bitlog.com

An app contributed to chaos at last week’s 2020 Democratic Iowa Caucus. Hours after the caucus opened, it became obvious that something had gone wrong. No results had been reported yet. Reports surfaced that described technical problems and inconsistencies.