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I'm not convinced. The pressure on Boeing to fix this ASAP is immense. That is not a good environment for writing safety critical software. Especially if they are doing a "broader software redesign". I don't believe that software quality can be enforced from the outside.

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Yes, having to use your employee car parking for these jets is not a good look that I'd imagine they are keen to have going on for long. https://www.flyertalk.com/articles/boeing-has-so-many-ground...

Interesting tidbit in the video. At 1:43 you see a MAX in Jet Airways livery - an airline that ceased operations and terminated all flights about 1 month after the grounding began.

For anyone writing software controlling machines it is pretty much the status quo. It has to be darn near perfect, updating it later if it is even possible will be expensive and inconvenient As much as it is a shitty environment if you have 6 months to fix it and all of the company resources you can think of to ask for that is lots of time.

Having 6 months to fix it would have been fine.

Instead what they've had is 2 weeks to fix it for 6 months, which is a very different kettle of fish.

Hopefully whoever is in the hot seat knows the name of the game. First you ask for 30 days, then you ask for 30 more.

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