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The Destruction of Knights Capital: The most expensive software bug in human history: $49 million/sec, $8.6 billion in 28 minutes. (www.quora.com)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Now what was the cause of the bug? Fat fingering human error during release.

There isn't a singular "the" cause usually, and if we do want to press for it, I'd say an aggressive deadline for a major product that needs engineers to slave away was the cause. At that point bugs become stastically inevitable. Whoever decided on that promised deadline was the first responsible person.