Ryan Lopopolo(@_lopopolo):I've given this story in many talks: it is unconscionable that at this point the industry has not eliminated “outage caused by missing retry and timeout”. These problems are trivial to specify and identify. So many tens or hundreds of thousands of hours mitigating. No widespread technical guardrails. And now, with code being free to produce, there really is no excuse

2026.09.05 04:33

I've given this story in many talks: it is unconscionable that at this point the industry has not eliminated “outage caused by missing retry and timeout”. These problems are trivial to specify and identify. So many tens or hundreds of thousands of hours mitigating. No widespread technical guardrails. And now, with code being free to produce, there really is no excuse

Martin Fowler@martinfowler

2026.09.02 13:50

Rachel's Ramblings: Maybe We Shouldn't Be Reviewing All This Code: Or, perhaps the problem isn't that AI has broken code review, maybe it’s that we've been using code review to solve the wrong problems