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I've read this paragraph a couple times - and what I find intriguing is how it's the sort of thing that GPT-3 can write based on the initial news statement. Every sentence in it is somewhat tautological. Maybe I'm just more suspicious, but I can envision a time (uh, maybe it's already here?) when forums like HN start to get peppered with AI commentary...

This sentence, though - seems to be without any basis: "Currently development of new products is going faster than we can understand the qualities and limitations of those products."

I would think that in 2021 we know far more about the "qualities and limitations" of products under development - through virtue of more sophisticated testing, more sophisticated test equipment, and advanced analytical capability.

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Funny, I had a similar reaction. The wording is just strange. Like on Reddit when bots are trying to create fud.

I'm having "MongoDB is webscale" flashbacks.

Was that brilliant guerilla marketing or just serendipity for them?

Carbon fiber airframes are new and have displayed unanticipated failures. Maybe they should have had more testing or more should have gone into reliable inspection and repair. We as a society may come to appreciate demonstrated robustness as much as novelty and efficiency.

> Maybe they should have had more testing or more should have gone into reliable inspection and repair.

Hindsight is so very easy to deploy from the comfort of the HN comments section.

If everyone was this pessimistic, nobody would ever get things out of the R&D lab and into the real world.

There are other industries beside "code fast, break things often and let the user test it". In some industries a test not done on time or skipped can cost later a lot of money.

Aviation is already one of the most conservative industries there is.

What is today’s date?

What's 2 + 2?

GPT-3 can do some kinds of basic arithmetic. Specially so memetic calculations (if that's a thing) like 2+2.

> I would think that in 2021 we know far more about the "qualities and limitations" of products under development - through virtue of more sophisticated testing, more sophisticated test equipment, and advanced analytical capability.

Not to mention that the current state of knowledge is based also on what we've learned so far about existing good and bad technologies.

You forgot quality tailoring. See Boeing for examples.

I wasted time reading a paragraph by an AI? That comment should be downvoted, as should any AI generated comments.

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