alt Hacker NewsBut with a software bug, the error becomes rapidly widespread and systematic, whereas human error are often not. Doing wrong with a couple of prescription because the doc worked for 12+ hrs is different from systematically doing wrong on a significant number of prescriptions until someone double check the results.
An error in a massive hand-crafted Excel sheet also becoms systematic and wide-spread.
Because Excel has no way of doing unit tests or any kind of significant validation. Big BIG things have gone to shit because of Excel.
Things that would have never happened if the same thing was a vibe-coded python script and a CSV.