{"id":246813,"date":"2026-11-07T10:05:51","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T16:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/what-is-computer-science-about-or-the-most-dangerous-bug"},"modified":"2026-11-07T10:05:51","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T16:05:51","slug":"what-is-computer-science-about-or-the-most-dangerous-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/what-is-computer-science-about-or-the-most-dangerous-bug","title":{"rendered":"What Is Computer Science About? Or, the Most Dangerous Bug"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Computer science has a bug. No compiler will ever catch it.<\/p>\n<p>It might be the most dangerous one we\u2019ve ever shipped. And with #AI, we\u2019re about to ship it everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>It starts with a deceptively simple question: what is #ComputerScience actually about?<\/p>\n<p>If you said \u201ccomputers,\u201d you\u2019re in good company.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d argue you\u2019re also wrong.<\/p>\n<p>The answer, and the bug, are in this article. It involves a telescope and your neighbor\u2019s window.<\/p>\n<p>Read it. Then tell me where I\u2019m wrong.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/what-is-computer-science-about-or-the-most-dangerous-bug\">Continue reading \u201cWhat Is Computer Science About? Or, the Most Dangerous Bug\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computer science has a bug. No compiler will ever catch it. It might be the most dangerous one we\u2019ve ever shipped. And with #AI, we\u2019re about to ship it everywhere. It starts with a deceptively simple question: what is #ComputerScience actually about? If you said \u201ccomputers,\u201d you\u2019re in good company. I\u2019d argue you\u2019re also wrong. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,224,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-science","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}