Software’s Miracle, and its Curse

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“The problem,” Leveson wrote in a book, “is that we are attempting to build systems that are beyond our ability to intellectually manage.”
. . . The software did exactly what it was told to do. In fact it did it perfectly. The reason it failed is that it was told to do the wrong thing. . .
. . . Computers had doubled in power every 18 months for the last 40 years. Why hadn’t programming changed? . . .

The Coming Software Apocalypse

Holy ****!

“Visual Studio is one of the single largest pieces of software in the world,” he said. “It’s over 55 million lines of code. And one of the things that I found out in this study is more than 98 percent of it is completely irrelevant.