I'm very interested in systemic solutions to problems. Blaming an individual when they make a mistake *feels* reasonable. When a significant percentage of people make the same mistake (70%, 2%, it doesn't matter as long as it is measurable, predictable and has a negative impact), then it's *not* a persons fault.
We know how to tackle those kind of problems: we change the environment to minimize the likelihood of mistakes. Traffic and pedestrian safety is an example of a well explored space where we know what works. Bollards, narrower streets, slower speeds, raised pedestrian crossings, providing good alternatives to driving to reduce traffic...
Similar in industrial spaces: clear signaling, segregate heavy machinery from human limbs, clear and practiced process to get out of dodge when things go poorly...
It's always about looking for solutions to eliminate mistakes, and when they can't be eliminated, minimize the blast radius.
This is why I like
#Rust: it's a language and tooling that applies the industrial approach of "if two people make this mistake, figure out how to mitigate it".
We can't "individual responsibility" our way out of systemic problems.
I want more software with bollards.
