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Most computer programs are fragile

Software lacks biological redundancy; brittle vs antifragile

In nature, organic systems are redundant, you have two kidneys. When something break, the organism usually have some way to repair automatically.

In computers, artificial systems are fragile, when it breaks, it’s dead. Most software tends to be centralized, hopefully, in recent years we’re moving toward antifragile, distributed, artificial systems.

chaos engineering etc

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