Part of good engineering is having a solid understanding of your business domain and being able to spot things that just don't smell right.
An experienced professional software engineer on an industry standard salary, having been provided with nonsensical or missing requirements, should know when to impute and when to raise an exception. I'm not at all confident that a $9/hr engineer will do that.
Well, we don't know if they did. We do know that Boeing employees (including one of the whistleblowers) have attempted to raise such issues internally for a long time, but mostly went ignored, moved to a department where they can't complain, or fired.
So purely on the power differential, a $9 engineer wouldn't make a stink. Says nothing about their work ethic or ability to see disaster (at least upon integrating code, probably not literal disaster) coming.
And also, how would they have known they're just using one AOA input, and a component above them isn't already delivering a value that's known good - these are not the kind of engineers that'd know that.
I'm not at all confident that a $9/hr engineer can do that.
You don't hire somebody for a price like that because you intend to listen to their feedback and treat them like a valued member of the team. You hire somebody for a price like that because your LLM hasn't quite reached the level you want yet...or frankly costs more to run.
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Part of good engineering is having a solid understanding of your business domain and being able to spot things that just don't smell right.
An experienced professional software engineer on an industry standard salary, having been provided with nonsensical or missing requirements, should know when to impute and when to raise an exception. I'm not at all confident that a $9/hr engineer will do that.
Well, we don't know if they did. We do know that Boeing employees (including one of the whistleblowers) have attempted to raise such issues internally for a long time, but mostly went ignored, moved to a department where they can't complain, or fired.
So purely on the power differential, a $9 engineer wouldn't make a stink. Says nothing about their work ethic or ability to see disaster (at least upon integrating code, probably not literal disaster) coming.
And also, how would they have known they're just using one AOA input, and a component above them isn't already delivering a value that's known good - these are not the kind of engineers that'd know that.
I'm not at all confident that a $9/hr engineer can do that.
You don't hire somebody for a price like that because you intend to listen to their feedback and treat them like a valued member of the team. You hire somebody for a price like that because your LLM hasn't quite reached the level you want yet...or frankly costs more to run.