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All software has bugs,\nmost bugs involve software doing exactly what it was told to do.\nSometimes they eat your work, sometimes they kill people.\n\nThe title of this talk is partly “borrowed” from an article that\nappeared in The Atlantic in 2017. But is it all hyperbole? This talk\nwas originally proposed for the cancelled LGM in 2020 - the landscape\nmay have evolved since then, such as in the growth of AI, but has it\nimproved?  Let’s consider some of the issues. And ongoing experiments\nin user interaction, liveness and design in various open-source tools\nthat are seeking to change coding for the better.\n\nThis talk may cover some of the ideas in play. But it certainly won’t\nhave the right answers. It probably hasn’t even found the right\nquestions. 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