alt Hacker NewsIt does not have to be brushed away as "brute force" necessarily. We can, and do, build more reliable systems out of less reliable components. In fact, most industrial engineering accepts some defect rate and builds margins around it.
Software is no different. Even without AI, you already have buggy compilers and buggy OSes and buggy libraries. You just tend to accept the risk because you have some idea of what the failure modes are and can work around it or manage the risk in some other way (buy literal insurance.)
> you already have buggy compilers and buggy OSes and buggy libraries.
Which run, I must add, on effectively infallible hardware. Most of the software straight up assumes that the CPUs and the RAM will function perfectly and don't bother even trying to detect such failures (unless those failures manifest themselves in a catastrophic manner, the show will simply go on).
So in effect, we also can, and do, build less reliable systems out of more reliable components, and that's how software is different.