Poka-Yoke

the-mitr 15 points 2 comments May 09, 2026
en.wikipedia.org · View on Hacker News

Discussion Highlights (2 comments)

adrianN

Designing infrastructure and processes to reduce human error is a very important topic. With the recent AI boom, many engineers are working on figuring out how to build infrastructure that reduces AI errors. We rediscover many techniques (eg writing good specs) that were once used for humans, but then abandoned.

karmakaze

A prime example of poor implementation that comes to mind is MCAS in Boeing 737 Max[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneuvering_Characteristics_Au...

Semantic search powered by Rivestack pgvector
8,303 stories · 78,303 chunks indexed