I worked as a release engineer for some big tech companies and my entire job was to prevent some of the smartest people I knew from making some of the dumbest mistakes I've ever seen. Mistakes are ubiquitous, and we built some vast safety nets to avoid the common issues but stuff always slipped thru
Reposted from Charlie Germano
After working in software development for more than 30 years I can say this with confidence:

Software developers have exactly one specific set of skills - writing software. And if we trust them with literally anything else we will all die.

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