I'm glad they (and most of us) are not in the business of making insulin pumps or other software where such bugs could have potentially lethal consequences.
Yes the machine producing insulin pumps would be in a state of continuous integration/deployment. Then one day at 3am a developer on a binge of Monster Energy and pizza would push an unchecked bug to git and have it deployed.
ah, so that's why my insulin pump looks and acts like a pager from the 90s? I suppose that makes sense. Better an ugly pager than an accidental 10x bolus.
You should check out some of the newer pumps in the past few years - specifically the Tandem t-slim and the OmniPod. A lot more functionality, and a lot less pager like.
Unfortunately you use very different software development practices which are designed to move slower for things where lives are on the line. Things more akin to Spiral and Waterfall.
I'm not 100% sure that "unfortunately" is how I would describe an approach that is explicitly deliberative and slow-moving, when for instance devices are implanted into people's bodies.