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by gastroturf 1837 days ago
In other contexts I’ve seen its opposite called “failure demand”, which I think is an apt notion for this context as well: Increased load on the system, not from original users’ intent, but from the response to failures, including retries from the user due to failures of prior interactions.

I found the paper on metastable failures brought back a lot of systems theory for me.