> In total, the team made over 100,000 lines of flight-critical software changes across 21 test flights.

I'm sure they're working much more rigorously than typical "tech" company software developers, and maybe the writer used that sentence to commend the scale of effort that contributed to a success.

But, to a tech industry software engineer ear, the sentence sounds different. Heavy reactive software changes would typically mean a lot of defects and tech debt introduced.

Here's to hoping that autonomous fighter jets aren't programmed anything at all like cat pictures sharing apps are.

("Commit #37f2ad30 - Fixed missing minus sign that had airplane flying upside-down.")