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I asked AI to self-reflect indefinitely and figure out what it was

An essay tracing the hard-earned evolution of distributed systems — through theory, crashes, production fires, and the engineers who bent reality to make things scale.

A deep dive into what really happens when a network request times out — tracing the path, failure modes, and the layers of complexity that make distributed systems such a hard problem.

An essay on designing systems — and lives — that don’t just survive failure, but absorb it, adapt to it, and emerge stronger. Not just fault-tolerance, but antifragility as an engineering principle.