Management blocking safeguards has been a Software Engineering issue since Software Enginerring has been a thing. (Margaret Hamilton was a foundational figure of SWE.)
“She asked the powers at NASA to let her add a safeguard to prevent that error in a real flight, and they laughed it off as too unlikely… When an astronaut did make that blooper during the Apollo 8 mission, it caused necessary navigational data to vanish, and they called Hamilton in to get it back.”
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