But when the system actually has to run, the same issues come back: failure modes, unclear boundaries, things going wrong in ways that are not always visible.
So it no longer feels like the problem is "can we build this".
It feels more like the real problem is whether we can still understand and operate what gets produced.
But it did. What used to be unworthy of building is now totally doable. I can roll out one off ad-hoc UIs for our customer to navigate their bespoke data sets without having too much worry about expending a lot of development time to throw up a visualization page that may get discarded when its usefulness expires. So it has expanded the realm of the worthwhile if not necessarily the realm of the possible. At least not yet.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 13.0 ms ] threadBuilding got faster.
But when the system actually has to run, the same issues come back: failure modes, unclear boundaries, things going wrong in ways that are not always visible.
So it no longer feels like the problem is "can we build this".
It feels more like the real problem is whether we can still understand and operate what gets produced.
I wrote this to make that framing clearer.
Curious if others are seeing something similar.