[jungler]

All bridges follow similar designs, even if their implementations are original. Digital systems tend to fail in original ways all the time, because the design is something intentionally new. If it weren't, you'd just copy the existing software.

Which doesn't mean that we have no reusable or generalizable quality metrics - we do. But they tend to express things that correlate to an abstract of quality, and not a failure threshold.

The most honest systems in software are the ones that do not scale, because they have built in their hard failure point - and from that, tolerance metrics similar to bridges can be predicted and planned for. It's software that has to do everything in a multitude of configurations at great speed that runs into deep architectural issues, because it hypothesizes a bridge that will someday tolerate an infinite load.