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[−]pjmlp · 2026-10-11 Sun 11:39 UTC · link
I saw this talk yesterday,

"The Power of Ten: Rules for Safety Critical Coding by Gerard Holzmann"

https://youtu.be/GRJtYwneG2Q?is=M0z7hnpQ78C8fLLP

At a moment he mentions a trick he played on JPL folks, his static analysis tool, instead of showing all the issues found, would only display the top 10, without telling them there were actually more than 10.

So they felt motivated to fix them, it were only 10 after all.

Naturally eventually they became aware of the trick.