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Oct 21, 2026
The Future of Software is SOUP?
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0:58Douglas SquirrelHOST
And of course, these are very highly regulated.
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1:00Douglas SquirrelHOST
And all of us remember various catastrophes, Therac-25 and others, where pieces of software in medical devices have not worked as they want.
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1:11Douglas SquirrelHOST
You want your pacemaker to have unit tests, right, Jeffrey? Yes,
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1:16Jeffrey FredrickHOST
absolutely.
Prime Radiant • Agentic Development – Transposing Intent
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49:53Jesse VincentGUEST
I think it makes sense.
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49:55Jesse VincentGUEST
Like, you know, you know, Therac 25 was very much, you know, was human caused, but You know, I feel like the medical industry learned a lot of lessons in the aftermath and folks are and folks are rightfully a lot more careful when it comes to human physical safety.
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50:13speaker_3MODERATOR
Yeah.
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50:14speaker_3MODERATOR
So if we think about kind of like where all of this is going, do you think that the autonomous software industry, engineering front that you're developing, do you think that it actually democratizes innovation? Or do you think it eventually concentrates the power among companies with the best infrastructure and the best models?