Lightning Talks Day #1 – Gil Goldman
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The pitch is that small, human touches in code both surface real bugs and make products stick: a training tank sim shows a giant cow in tank sim that developers call a failure but trainees remember for weeks; a customer exercise with thousands of simulated soldiers and a two‑hour scenario keeps crashing until a developer’s playful rabbit triggers a parachute bug (infinite climb → misclassified as falling soldier); historical examples include Apollo 11 comments and whimsical Amazon/Oracle Easter eggs that persist.
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