Exactly, engineers tend to focus on robustness, which is defending against what you expect, but tend to overlook system fragility against overlooked or disregarded scenarios.
Engineers tend to optimise what is in their scope. If not one really owns the ‘system robustness in the face of non-local failures’ then no one will be really designing the system to at least fail gracefully.
I think brittle is a good word here. Strong until it isn't, and then fails catastrophically.
Like to tightly optimized just-in-tume supply chains as well.
Exactly, engineers tend to focus on robustness, which is defending against what you expect, but tend to overlook system fragility against overlooked or disregarded scenarios.
Engineers tend to optimise what is in their scope. If not one really owns the ‘system robustness in the face of non-local failures’ then no one will be really designing the system to at least fail gracefully.