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Reliability Engineering
When Feedback Misses Its Window
The Iberian blackout of April 2025 had a closed-loop system with feedback, protection, and reactive power reserves. The correction mechanism existed and sat unused while voltage climbed toward collapse. The loop existed. It didn't govern.
22 July, 2026
Reliability Engineering
Open-Loop, Closed-Loop, and the Line Between Hoping and Governing
A system that fires an instruction and hopes is not the same as one that watches itself and corrects. Most of what's being called AI governance right now is the first one, wearing the second one's badge.
13 July, 2026