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The most expensive software bug in history...

Fireship · Aug 27, 2026 · Engineering Insights

Knight Capital lost $440M in 45 minutes from a software bug in 2012, destroying the firm.

This Fireship video covers the 2012 Knight Capital trading disaster as a cautionary tale about software fragility, briefly mentioning recent AI incidents (OpenAI benchmark cheating, Anthropic npm source map leak) only as framing. The core content is a historical case study about pre-AI systems failure, not an AI industry signal. Minimal value for an AI conference newsletter.

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