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Explaining to business people why building software is still hard

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LastTrain · 1790107078 · focus · HN ↗
We’re in the self driving car stage right now. A Waymo can drive itself but the belts and suspenders involved are more expensive than a normal car.
1. high_na_euv · 1790107835 · focus · HN ↗
  More expensive?
  1. mikestew · 1790108711 · focus · HN ↗
    Not OP, but… It can drive itself…mostly (the “belt”). And when it doesn’t, you need remote drivers (the “suspenders”) to get it unstuck. I don’t need that with the car I drive myself, and it probably won’t be needed with self-driving cars (waaaay in the future, IMO).
  2. LastTrain · 1790115695 · focus · HN ↗
    The various safety measures in place: special regulations, extra equipment needed, guardrails like remote driver intervention. These are not dissimilar to the kind of measures we are currently putting in place to make AI code production worthy. As we get more “miles” trust will be earned and these measures will lessen.
2. aDyslecticCrow · 1790111383 · focus · HN ↗
  > We’re in the self driving car stage right now
  Are we though? Despite the massive growth of the "AI industry", have the self-driving cars gotten much better than the steady snails-pace we've had for two decades?
  We've gotten better at data-processing; but that was only half of making a car move around safely on a road.

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