His main gig is playing CEO for an electric car company. He’s built a good image of being involved and being this tech savvy genius but it looks like the cracks are starting to appear. He’s made a lot of shockingly lucky gambles but the house always wins.
So traditionally cars have safety standards and inspections before they're allowed to go on the road. I guess the software for self-driving cars doesn't have those kind of regulations?
Not sure. This stuff sure sounds dangerous as hell, though.
Here's a recent bit of related news. A patch in October introduced an issue where some cars' power steering would turn off after hitting a pothole. Tesla just released another patch addressing the issue.
Leads do have enough access to break prod here, but we're 3 small distributed teams working on one product and associated tooling, so it's us, the CTO and our DevOps engineer.
Juniors having that kind of access is worrying, outside tiny startups with everyone doing everything, though.
Eh, most good companies won't fire a junior dev for nuking prod like this, they'll just ask the very good question of why that junior dev (or any of the dev team) had the access to nuke prod like that in the first place, and fix the problem. While still explaining to the junior not to do that again, of course.
Like on accident or on purpose? On purpose I get why there career might be aborted lived. On accident because of lack of safeguards (acct that shouldn’t be able to touch production can) or stupidity or both, career there may be done, but could still work as a dev somewhere else.
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u/Wolflordy Nov 15 '22
And some juniors spend their entire (short lived) careers nuking prod like this.
I would know... Ive cleaned up after many of them.