Post #4502681
2026-08-10 23:42 UTC
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
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@glyph@mastodon.social 2026-08-10 23:44
It's happening in the open source community but it's also happening on corporate teams. Everyone racing to hit KPI mandates, assuming that surely the infra team won't risk the vigilance decrement that comes along with LLMs, surely *they'll* slowly and carefully build by hand so that *our* app can run atop it. The infra teams rely on OSS libraries, the libraries rely on the kernel. Everyone assuming that they can be a bit less careful and let the quality slide just a bit to get more velocity