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1. aetherspawn · 1791170746 · focus · HN ↗

   Auto software engineer here.

   It’s frankly because Motorsport software guys are pretty arrogant. They look down on road car and truck engineers, but reality is they develop stuff with virtually no processes and they usually have only very basic engineering skills, yet every day they are told Motorsport is at the forefront of technology.

   “Motorsport grade” auto components usually means crappy, and everything requires a software patch or constant maintenance to work correctly.

   Not surprised there was a bug, and not surprised they were able to develop and deploy a patch in 1 hour without V&V testing it or anything.

   1. oshawa_connecti · 1791175818 · focus · HN ↗

      Preach; I worked with a couple guys who left the F1 software industry and my experience matches yours. They wrote JavaScript like it was old school C, didn’t know version control etc, and refused to learn anything different.

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