> It's about on par with the ridiculousness of LOC implying code quality.
Most effective engineers on the brownfield projects I've worked on, usually deleted more LOC than they've added, because they were always looking to simplify the code and replace it with useful (and often shorter) abstractions.
Yeah it's very much the opposite of how Claude Code tends to approach a problem it hasn't seen before, which tends toward constructing an elaborate Rube Goldberg machine by just inserting more and more logic until it manages to produce the desired outcome. You can coax it into simplifying its output, but it's very time consuming to get something that is of a professional standard, and doesn't introduce technical debt.
Especially in brownfield settings, if you do use CC, you really should be spending something like a day refactoring the code for every 15 minutes of work it spends implementing new functionality. Otherwise the accumulation of technical debt will make the code base unworkable by both human and claude hands in a fairly short time.
I think overall it can be a force for good, and a source of high quality code, but it requires a significant amount of human intervention.
Claude Code operating on unsupervised Claude code fairly rapidly generates a mess not even Claude Code can decode, resulting in a sort of technical debt Kessler syndrome, where the low quality makes the edits worse, which makes the quality worse, rinse and repeat.
> I still doubt they're gonna face any serious penalties
Having to fix all P320 fire control units they've sold so far will put them out of business. You don't even need any additional penalties on top of that. I just hope they can spin off Optics division before that happens.
And that's why it won't happen. One of the reasons huge companies don't get punished in full is that destroying them could be destabilizing to the economy and therefore hurt's the ability of the people with power to get reelected.
Wouldn't someone buy their capital equipment and IP for pennies on the dollar if they went bankrupt though? So I don't know how much it would destabilize the economy, it would just shift around who runs the company. 'Sig' would cease to exist but 'this mass of capital that makes guns' and possibly even the employees, would still be around.
And it still does not help, because the safety only blocks the trigger but not the striker from firing, thus the Air Force incident that started, this topic, became possible.
It feels like you are pressing on a tennis ball, zero real feedback whatsoever. Acura MDX has had the brake-by-wire system fo a while now in the latest generation.
> What we need is much better whistleblower programs.
Unfortunately, not many organizations will have the aligned incentives. If businesses that conduct potentially dangerous operations, were required to get an insurance, then insurance companies would have incentive to pay money to the whistleblower vs paying out a much larger claim down the line.
