In Claude Code, it always shows the diff between current and proposed changes and I have to explicitly allow it to actually modify the code. Doesn’t that “fix” the copy-&-paste issue?
Real reason is humans are way too optimistic in planning and, for some reason, tend to overlook even more rare, but catastrophic risks.
I’m almost sure that the system had some sort of local replication and versioning that was enough to deal with occasional deletions, rollbacks, and single non-widespread hardware failures, so only the very catastrophic scenario of losing all servers at the same time (that for sure wouldn’t happen anytime soon) was uncovered.
> If, as a manager, you want a more structured means of conveying institutional knowledge generated within such channels then it's on you to put that together
Would it switch the lights if you’re only listening with headphones while your camera is open?
Most of my awkward moments happened with family members casually cruising on my background while someone else had the word. Usually they can hear when I’m speaking and don’t enter the room.
You are right. My comment wasn’t meant to completely invalidate the point of the article or to provide an alternative exhaustive list of causes, but more to bring this other aspect that I felt wasn’t surfaced yet.
We will still see several reports of over adoption, mistakes, regression… all will only serve to learn, refine, and hopefully regulate.
I think it’s pretty naive to expect the entire world will simply discard the technology and go back to having humans doing it all.