Safety was always stochastic. The professional move was always the same: estimate your confidence honestly, find the cheapest lever that raises it, and pull that lever relentlessly. For decades the cheapest lever — thorough, adversarial, never-bored review — was also the most expensive to staff, so we pulled it sparingly and dressed up the result in categorical language. AI didn’t break that bargain. It made the lever cheap.https://hko.sh/posts/software-was-never-safe-only-stochastic/
Echoes from the ShellSoftware Was Never Safe — AI Just Made the Uncertainty Impossible to IgnoreSoftware development was never black and white. It was always stochastic. The most-verified systems on earth aren't 100% safe, and 'many eyes' never made open source secure. AI doesn't introduce that uncertainty — it just removes our excuse for ignoring it.
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