Yeah, I get that inclination, but the annoying part here isn't that it didn't work, it's that the system somehow wasn't trained to think that a number of items higher than ten requires manual intervention.

Basically, some poor bastard (probably a intern too if I know anything about industry) software engineer forgot to or wasn't told to program a notice limit into the software, thinking that they could automate the entire thing.

It's frustrating because it's such a simple thing to fix and yet somehow it was let into the wild without it. Like, they must have had meetings about this happening and yet it still happened. Extremely poor quality standards.

[–] MayoPete@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are we sure a human wrote the order taking software?

[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

They probably had an intern generate and patch it using AI. The old "The risk isn't AI taking your job, it is your boss hiring someone who can supposedly use AI to do your job because they don't actually understand how anything works."