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  • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
    7·
    1 day ago

    ran across this

    Kaminski told SiliconANGLE in an interview he was inspired to launch the company after seeing how long and difficult it was for medical technology firms to bring innovations to market.

    “Everything that’s meaningful is regulated,” Kaminski said. “I didn’t even comprehend how hard it could be.”

    “I could code that in a weekend” techbro meets decades-grown safety nets, is very surprised at complexity

    I haven’t dug deeper into their thing yet but some of the claims are a bit 🤨 too

    • ________@awful.systemsEnglish
      8·
      19 hours ago

      Ultra trivialization is the blood of tech bros. Everything is so easy and everyone else is just so clueless. Boy met computer through hello world and thought that’s the pinnacle of computer science.

      How long til some bright eyed influencer dev tries to take on JPL and MISRA? It’s always some middleware garbage these startups make and never a QNX competitor.

      • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
        4·
        18 hours ago

        “Qnx is hard and expensive, I’m sure we could get a production quality thing out with the esp-idf arduino target!!~ You devs so like to blow things out of proportion”

        (while not an exact quote, extremely close to some shit I’ve heard from some people before)

    • fullsquare@awful.systemsEnglish
      7·
      1 day ago

      “The biggest problem is that it used to take about 50 pages to prove the system works, like a scalpel, but today… that could take 10,000 pages,” Kaminski explained. “And you need to make 10,000 pages every time you make a new version. It’s just really, really difficult to make so much proof as products become more software and AI-driven.”

      Methinks that scalpel is a tad simpler than insulin pump, and considering that sometimes, there are unpatchable vulns found in the latter, i’d really prefer not to see vibecoded driver for these kind of things. Would match nicely with vibe-lawyered compliance docs