If 90% of the internet is slop, scaling it 100x makes it three nines
charles_irl · x · 2026-09-27
Responding to the quip that "the field has been 90% slop since before genAI, it just has better uptime," charlesirl notes: take something that makes up 90% of traffic and 100x it — that makes it 99.9%.
His point: engineering for one nine is different from engineering for three, an availability-engineering lens on slop治理.
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