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by throwaway729 3552 days ago
Exactly. I think that itself actually an interesting "hard tech" problem: how do you move fast, iterate, and be first-to-market without killing anyone?
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You do not move fast and iterate if you care at all about the cost of failures. Period.
I did say it's a hard tech problem... :)

(But seriously, at least in theory, there are sort of obvious things you can do to isolate anything failure-critical behind statically or dynamically checked contracts, which then allows rapid iteration outside of the small set of things that are truly failure-critical. But you need those contracts trustworthy enough that you can iterate without worry, flexible enough that you can iterate on economically important sub-components, and applicable to a system or set of systems where this iteration gives you the trump card in a billion dollar(s) industry. As I said, it's "hard tech" -- which almost by definition means some people will think it's impossible.)

I don't think you do. You want to be number 2, and swoop in when the time is right.