The burden of trust

Hackday yesterday. Everyone went all in on AI-assisted building. No code reviews. No production concerns. No worrying about edge cases.

Someone built a backup tool using GitHub Actions. Someone rebuilt our dev start engine in React for the terminal. Someone turned an article into a text adventure. I made an agent that helps you build agents.

We went bananas.

And I started wondering. What if this was every day?

The first constraint is trust. Our readers trust that the website works. That the news is there when they need it. If we break things, we break trust. Inside the company too.

So maybe the question isn’t how to remove the burden. Maybe it’s where can we carry less of it. Where can we invent without the weight of keeping everything running.

Production needs responsibility. But invention needs room.