I was reading Jason Gorman’s article “The Wall Confronting Reliable Coding Agent Autonomy” and he says: the journey from 90% to 99% reliability is just as hard…
Also: uptime percentage must be computed as the intersection of uptime across services, not the union.
GitHub Actions: 98.31% uptime. We say something like: GitHub Actions: 12 hours affected in the last 30 days (98.31% uptime).
Normal people have no understanding of percentages or numbers, I agree saying 12 hours of downtime is more useful, but I’m also tired of trying to contextualize numbers for the numerically illiterate.
“innumerate”, same as illiterate, but for numbers. Not sure if it’s a common enough word for people to understand what you’re talking about, but still there it is
Also: uptime percentage must be computed as the intersection of uptime across services, not the union.
Normal people have no understanding of percentages or numbers, I agree saying 12 hours of downtime is more useful, but I’m also tired of trying to contextualize numbers for the numerically illiterate.
“innumerate”, same as illiterate, but for numbers. Not sure if it’s a common enough word for people to understand what you’re talking about, but still there it is
Cue recommendation of John Allen Paulos.