Bugs That Made Headlines – and What They Reveal About How We Build Software
summary
Seven headline bugs: Boeing 737 MAX MCAS causes two crashes and 346 deaths after undocumented automation; Robinhood glitch lets $4,000 turn into $1,000,000 per user via unchecked negative balances and Reddit exploits; Ariane 5 self-destructs at 37 seconds due to reused code and a 64-bit→16-bit conversion overflow costing $37M; Intel FDIV rounding error triggers a ~$0.5B recall; Y2K avoidance costs ~$100B but prevents catastrophe. Lessons: complexity without clarity kills, test beyond the happy path, revalidate reused code, transparency beats denial.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction to headline bugs
- 3:11Boeing 737 Max crashes
- 6:54HobbyHood trading glitch
- 10:08Ariane 5 rocket explosion
- 12:44Intel Pentium FDIV bug
- 15:39Y2K millennium bug
- 19:17Lessons from headline bugs
- 21:48Call to action and Q&A
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