Comment by proteal
6 months ago
I bet the folks who implemented the system do have checks and balances. The article said they placed 2 million successful orders which realistically can’t happen without some form of error correction. These reports seem like black-swan Taco Bell orders that break the system despite any safeguards against it. Luckily there’s no way the guy behind the counter is pouring 18,000 waters lol. I agree with you too - “Taco Bell Employee Fucks Up Order” is only newsworthy because an AI did it when the real headline should read “AI Successfully Processes 2M Taco Bell Orders”
If a gun manufacturer advertised a claim of "two millions bullets successfully fired", you might naturally wonder how many of them struck their intended targets.
I think the same omission is more telling than not, here.
"Our system cannot handle edge cases, but look at how many times we can walk the happy path" is not exactly an endorsement that would get it through QA on any team I've been on.
I would describe reverting to the current status quo as successfully handling edge cases.