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Completely agree - I think it can go one of two ways. Software is more malleable than airplanes are and that also comes with downsides (like how much time and effort it takes to bring a new plane to the market)



I was just thinking of this metaphor today.

Try drawing the software monstrosity you work on / with as an airplane. 100 wings sticking out all different directions, covered with instruments and fins, totally asymmetrical and 5 miles long. Propellers, jets, balloons, helicopter blades.

Yep, it flies.

When it crashes, just take off again.


So software is my son's Bad Piggies flying monstrosity! You only left out the crates of TNT.


The article talks about a piece of software that partially failed, when they needed to calculate the braking distance for the overweight aircraft.




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