Not sure if sexism or plain hubris, but this particular incident from the recently deceased #MargaretHamilton is still so prone to repeat itself in many tech environments:

She also proposed a software fix to prevent the error happening during a real mission, but she was overruled on the grounds that the highly trained astronauts were never going to make that same mistake. Yet during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968, that’s exactly what happened

news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-ham…