Toots from 2026-02-24#
“But distributed bugs don’t respect ceremony. They show up after retries, batching, and unlucky…#
“But distributed bugs don’t respect ceremony. They show up after retries, batching, and unlucky orderings nobody pictured when the code was written. They can sleep in stored state for months and then wake up on a Tuesday afternoon. LLMs are excellent at happy paths; the corners of distributed behavior are not happy places.
We’re about to try and automate the hardest part of our craft.”
https://jhellerstein.github.io/blog/codegen-reality/