The Reliability Thesis
When software becomes abundant, confidence becomes the constraint.
When software becomes abundant, confidence becomes the constraint. A point of view on software reliability in the age of autonomous systems, examining verification, authority, system context, and retained evidence.
A companion to The Reliability Thesis. Watch episode 1: AI Did Not Remove the Bottleneck It Moved It
Key Takeaways
Executive Summary
AI is making software creation dramatically easier. The enterprise bottleneck is moving downstream into verification, authority, and proof.
As the cost of producing software falls, value moves toward proving that software can be trusted. Generation becomes abundant. Verification becomes scarce.
This paper combines published third-party research with Zof AI analysis. It sets out a reliability control plane, five capabilities for consequential autonomy, and proposed operating metrics. Illustrative metric values are not benchmark data.
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