What Hillel Wayne thinks about nuclear power

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Writer and consultant on formal methods, testing and software correctness, author of Logic for Programmers and Practical TLA+. He ran the Crossover Project, interviewing seventeen people who worked as traditional engineers before becoming software developers, to settle by evidence whether software engineering is engineering.

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1. 29 Jul 2026

   Our readingNuclear power plants, the standard example of software that must be proved correct, do not care about formal verification: thorough testing is enough for them.

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   Their wordsbut I can tell you with first hand experience nuclear power plants do not care about this stuff. They're actually just fine with with with thorough testing.

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