Do you trust Programmers?

by **rishaed** on Thu May 19, 2016 7:21 pm

If you trust the Robots do you trust the programmers who programmed them to have found all of the bugs before they released it for public use?

by **Serbia** on Fri May 20, 2016 7:12 pm

No.

Bollocks. :twisted:

by **tzor** on Fri May 20, 2016 9:52 pm

rishaed wrote:If you trust the Robots do you trust the programmers who programmed them to have found all of the bugs before they released it for public use?

It's not the programmers who have to find all of the bugs ... they are just responsible for basic unit testing. Quality Assurance is responsible for complete end to end testing.

To be honest, catastrophic errors are not unique to computers or robots. In our increasingly complex world, even government regulations can be costly and sometimes fatal.

Consider, the bureaucratic decision to switch the water sources in Flint Michigan. Or when the EPA accidentally let toxic materials flow into a major river estuary.

by **rishaed** on Fri May 20, 2016 10:13 pm

tzor wrote:
rishaed wrote:If you trust the Robots do you trust the programmers who programmed them to have found all of the bugs before they released it for public use?

It's not the programmers who have to find all of the bugs ... they are just responsible for basic unit testing. Quality Assurance is responsible for complete end to end testing.

To be honest, catastrophic errors are not unique to computers or robots. In our increasingly complex world, even government regulations can be costly and sometimes fatal.

Consider, the bureaucratic decision to switch the water sources in Flint Michigan. Or when the EPA accidentally let toxic materials flow into a major river estuary.

Well Considering the amount of people who said they trusted robots to perform a surgical operation in Apey's thread, I thought I would bring up a further thread on programmers who make the actions that a robot/computer do possible with the software. Also Government is Always known to be inefficient/catastrophic. Its just as we let robots do more things and take over more tasks that used to be done by humans, you have to look at if they are trustworthy. The fact taht you can't dispute that in every new release there are bugs and things need to be patched makes me think that for certain things like surgery, humans are still going to be far better than robots.