Boeing's 737 Max Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers

or software mistake

In my opinion it is a software mistake. We need to learn, that implications of our software are also part of our software.

For example the engineers being responsible to implement the controll logic that was based on only one sensor should have intervened.

You could argue: yeah, but this team did not even know how their little software component relates to the whole system.

This type of thinking is also one that needs to stop. We as a team are responsible for the whole system and not only for isolated companies. It should been possible to catch this system flaw.

Maybe this type of issue is not a bug, but it is still something so severe that this system should have not gone in production.

his design was fatally flawed before one line of code was written.

What i am basically trying to say: when the system was flawed before the first LOC was written, we should still have been capable of catching such fatal design flaws.

Only when we mature in such a way that this type of system flaws are catched reliable, we can start calling ourselfs truly professionals.

And no, sentences like: "our managers demanded .. " are not a plausible excuse.

I think this $9/hour thing tells you a lot about how this aircraft was designed and built.

Sadly true. Its hard to demand professionalism when you cheap out on your personal.

The troubling thing is: companies are forced to act like this, because every other company acts the same way. In order to stop this type of harmful behavior we would need to start some type of IT union on a global scale.

Something defining minimum conditions that re not allowed to be undercut. And honestly i am not mainly thinking about the wage issue. There is also the power issue that there are many countries where bean-counters think think that it is a good way that they are in control. It is often impossible for engineers to work properly just because the persons above them are in control.

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