The Enterprise-D, being a giant showpiece ship had the most bleeding edge holodeck of the era. The holodeck uniquely incorporated a lot of TOS advanced alien technology, which Starfleet engineers mostly understood. Mostly. There were some hiccups.
So essentially they went to space stack-overflow and did some space cargo cult programming? Seems legit.
So essentially they went to space stack-overflow and did some space cargo cult programming? Seems legit.
Space ChatGPT wrote it for them.
And messed up on several innocent looking, hard to figure out, and disastrous ways.
The first rule of programming club is: If it compiles, ship it!
Literally, in this case.
What if it compiles but crashes later on due to memory leaks?
Charge for support
Did r00ty declare any exception to the rule?
idk
Well, the important question is. Does the rule suggest, imply, or require at any point that the code ever even be run?
In the words of Stargate SG1: “You can’t just slap a US Air Force sticker on a death glider!”