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Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch

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h4kunamata · 1791167191 · focus · HN ↗
The Enshittification era keeps on giving.
Moved from one of the most fun auto sports to an EV mess. The fact that they were able to vibe code ( You can't truly deliver a code without testing gates in place, let alone release to production, the cars themselves), tells:
1: The teams no longer own the car
2: F1 has become Formula E 2.0
1. LoganDark · 1791167468 · focus · HN ↗
  Gotta love how people assume software patches have never been prepared in an emergency before LLMs. Ever heard of Apollo 14?
  1. fishgoesblub · 1791170038 · focus · HN ↗
    Apollo 14? Is that a new model?
    LoganDark · 1791170726 · focus · HN ↗
    Apollo 14 was one of the original moon landing missions back in 1971. They had to make an emergency adjustment to the computer's memory to work around an electrical issue where the abort button would intermittently (and erroneously) register as pressed. Turns out they couldn't modify the actual machine code so it wasn't a "software patch" in the exact same sense, but there were certainly no large language models back then.

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