Engineering
The Kill Switch Doesn't Save You. The Drill Does.
Every autonomous system needs a kill switch. Almost no one actually runs the drill. I did — and found two production bugs hiding inside tests that passed.
April 2, 20267m read
Every autonomous system needs a kill switch. Almost no one actually runs the drill. I did — and found two production bugs hiding inside tests that passed.
Every system I built was designed to run autonomously. None of them were designed to stop. That's a problem when you're the only human in the org chart.