Replying to @glyph@mastodon.social
This is the logic of the O-ring disaster. Everybody just relies upon everybody else's safety margin — in the software community, that safety margin is built mostly out of earnestness and the willingness to sit with a problem and *really* understand it — and hollows out their own, assuming that the load will fall somewhere else.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disaster#O-ring_concerns
