Comment by KronisLV
5 hours ago
Ehh, I'd say there's not much difference between the UI being in a state that's for all intents being frozen due to not having a status indicator or actually having a dropped request and the UI doing nothing because there's nothing going on, you know?
Or having the Electron UI being sluggish 99% of the time during daily use vs dealing with that 1% of the time when there's outages. I'd rather have that 99% be good and 1% not work, than 99.9% be miserable and 0.01% not work.
Yep, it's not like electricity which is an essential service.
If electricity faults for one second, chaos breaks loose as so many things depend on it. Imagine having several microblackouts a day? We wouldn't tolerate. It's so reliable that normal people don't need redundancy for it, they just tap into the stream which is always available.
AI is definitely shaping up to NOT become like that. We're designing for an unreliable system (try again buttons, etc), and the use cases follow that design.