[mrothroc]

I've been specializing in distributed systems for nearly 35 years. I've read your work, and it's shaped my thinking. When you say you have a person in mind when you write, I am that person. Thank you for what you've done.

I don't think this replaces you. The hard part of reliability is understanding the failure modes in the context of the business. No one has unlimited time or money, we always have to make tradeoffs. Only experienced humans have both the ability to interrogate the stakeholders and a vision broad enough to understand what to pursue versus what to give up.

Tools like this make the grind part of the job easier. They do not replace the holistic view you need to be able to confidently tell someone "worry about X, do not worry about Y".