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>Software engineers feeling down should think about software designed to track medication administration, or validate their tax calculations, or to decide whether to flag you for a CIFAS marker, or whatever, and then imagine the generic "fuck it, that'll do" type vibecoder-level-engineer handling the code.

That makes me feel even more down, because I know this will happen.

Even on a less dangerous level, repeated mistakes can be detrimental to your business. Imagine a typical ecommerce app for selling anything. Mess with people’s orders and money and you’ll go out of business or get sued or get a bad reputation. This not even about AI, it’s just how business works.

Novartis outsourced most of its development in India, also lots of medicine is manufactured there in dubious conditions and has been for years, if not decades, the ship has sailed long before AI slop.