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"move fast and break things" I think as a culture, software folx don't have as firm a grasp on the impact they can have on lives. I mean, Boeing got rid of the only failsafe for a control system that could take over the controls of a jetliner in flight. A software glitch convinced NORAD that there were 250 Soviet ICBMs in flight and told all of hawaii they were about to get nuked. There's this lingering "oh, the human failsafe will take care of it" while simultaneously doing everything they can to avoid involving the human failsafe. And that human failsafe is almost always superhuman. "Here. You've got 200 milliseconds to not murder a bicyclist. Ready, steady, GO!"