I learned the hard way that words can be weapons.
(No trauma dump, you're good.)

Language is powerful.
Or as I like to say:
Language is load-bearing.

Words have real somatic impact.
They change nervous system state.
And yet tech treats it as.. vibes.
(Words make the body go brrr.)

What happens when language is treated with the same rigor as code?
When nervous system cost is not an abstract idea but part of the equation?
Which communicational failure modes become myths of the past?
(Static types for human language when?)

Imagine people asking:
"Why do you care about language so much?"

And the answer being:
"Because it works."

systemic.engineering explores what happens
when language stops being vibes
and is treated as infrastructure.

Because that's what language is:
The transport layer between divergent realities.
(Be they human or agentic.)

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System Failures at Boundaries
Across institutions, engineering, biology, and physics, failure is often blamed on weak signals or insufficient effort. This piece looks instead at the structural conditions that make correction possible — or impossible.
Escalation often fails not because people don’t try hard enough, but because systems no longer admit the kind of change being attempted.

https://open.substack.com/pub/hybridmind42/p/system-failures-at-boundaries?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=75c2ac

#HybridMind42 #SystemsThinking #ComplexSystems #Boundaries #FailureModes

There also is no life and limb peril with the jobs they are pointing most AIs to. The failure modes are not immediately catastrophic if an image generator or chat bot makes a mistake.

That’s why they seem so focused on taking away creative jobs first: because the AIs being bad at them doesn’t seem directly dire.

More on this here:

https://bit.ly/BeingHumanInAgeOfAI

#AI #LLM #LLMs #GenerativeAI #creative #FailureModes

#FailureModes is a devops meet-up to give a safe space to talk about failures.

I created a ICS calendar so you can get notified about the next one easily: https://failuremodes.dev/meetup.ics

Website: https://failuremodes.dev

Well, now that I've experienced every single failure mode of Google devices, I can die an angry man.

*blergh*

"Hmm... there was a glitch. Please try that again in a few seconds."

#Google #GoogleDevices #GoogleIsShit #FailureModes #angry #blergh #joke

@neonknightoa

¿Me vas a hacer reescribir de memoria la misma queja que las últimas diez veces, porque esta poronga no tiene búsqueda?

Claro que lo vas a hacer. Y ahora es la versión canónica, con todo y hashtags.

Lo bueno de haber laburado en electrónica es que odiamos el verano y el invierno por igual.

En verano, los equipos fallan porque calientan.

En invierno, los equipos fallan porque condensan humedad.

Ambos casos catalizados por la acumulación de polvo que causan los ventiladores.

Y no, no hay NINGÚN entorno natural en el planeta libre de esas agresiones. O de otras más sutiles, porque atención que mi gente se las ingenia para que falle aún lo que no debiera fallar.

#electronica #electronics
#computing #computacion
#informatica #techsupport
#teamverano #teaminvierno
#veranismo #veranistas #primaveranismo
#inviernismo #inviernistas #otoñinviernistas
#misantropía #misanthropy
#failuremodes

"Paying attention to how things work without thinking about how they fail is a recipe for disaster."
-- @pluralistic

He's talking about computers, but this could apply to much, much more. Including -- sorry to be topical -- political & social systems.

The Stoics prepared themselves for tragedy by visualizing the death of loved ones. A less philosophical & more pragmatic exercise is to ask yourself for each system you build or use, "what happens when this goes wrong?"

#failuremodes