alt Hacker NewsIn the average real world, the staff engineer learns nothing, regardless of whether they get to lose or keep their job. Some time down the line, they make other careless mistakes. Eventually they retire, having learned nothing.
This is more common than you'd think.
I was able to run some stats at scale on this and people who make mistakes are more likely to make more mistakes, not less. Essentially sampling from a distribution of a propensity for mistakes and this dominated any sign of learning from mistakes. Someone who repeatedly makes mistakes is not repeatedly learning, they are accident prone.