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HIPAA, public safety, compliance-first design.
For fifty years, engineers built the world on a promise: same input, same output, always. It was never entirely true, and where it was true it proved less than we thought. The tools we're shipping now won't let us pretend either way.
A century-old idea won a court case, lost the argument for fifty years, and only became the rulebook in the 1970s. This is how shareholder primacy went from contested to obvious, and why it is being contested again.
We've been shipping non-deterministic code for decades. We learned to live with it. Now we're scaling that chaos to production systems we can't understand, and hoping observability saves us.
Open source code on GitHub: https://github.com/ballance/transcription In my work with transcription systems, one challenge comes up repeate…
Having a written policy keeps any decisions out of the hands of arbitrary choice. Years of working in IT, especially in the financial and m…