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That works because each plane is (nearly) exactly the same as the one before it and we have exact specifications for the plane.

You can do maintenance, inspections, and replacement because of those specifications.

In software the equivalent of blueprints is code. The room for variation outside software “specifications” is infinite.

Human reliability when comes to assembling planes is also much higher than 99%, and LLM reliability creating code is much, much lower than 99%.



If you think human reliability when writing code is more than 99%, have I got news for you!


If you’re going by bugs per lines of code, I’m far higher than 99% reliable.


When measuring the reliability of my vacuum, I don't go by component, so I don't go by line when I measure the reliability of my code.


Ok if we measure uptime of the software I’ve written it’s far higher than 99%.


Again, we're not measuring uptime. We're measuring how many of them had at least one bug.


So if your vacuum had one component that was out of spec, but didn’t put it out of commission for any length of time, it’s 0% reliable?




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