Originally Posted by
Water pilot
It was one of those cases where the actual fix probably would have been to completely redesign the system but that was not an option (sound familiar?) Nowdays, I think the newly minted programmer contractor would simply fix the condition that they were presented with, the next newly minted programmer contractor would fix the next condition, and (as you experience) the end result would be bugs that pop in and out of the system at each release cycle. It would not surprise me all that much if all of the vaunted changes to MCAS get rolled back sometime in the future by newly minted programmers who never heard of Lion Air.
What a depressingly familiar story Water pilot.
Add in a management that underestimates the limitations of software solutions (especially ones that need to ALWAYS make smart decisions) and way over-estimates the speed at which they *should* be implemented, and it begins to sound a bit like Boeing.