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I read another tech take just now that essentially says

"everything the [aerospace|car|construction|...] industry has learned the hard way with regards to designing com0lex systems safely is wrong, so let's just throw those lessons away"

It hurts in how mind-numbingly stupid that is.

There are differences, sure. But the differences people think of as truths are largely wrong. Most notably, there's nothing intrinsically different about a complex system involving tonnes of metal...
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Jens Finkhäuser · 6w
... suspended in air, and a complex system consisting of globally orchestrated microservices, *as a system*. The problem is, people in tech don't tend to have a systems thinking background. It's something they're thrust into and figure out, and that's part of why we chase silver bullets: someone th...