Whenever a system attempts to predict what a user of the system will want or do next or means, the failure case generates the most noticeable immediate problems. The author(s) will notice them and attempt to fix those problems.

The success case may or may not generate a long-term problem.

Systems in which this applies: autocorrect. Grammar checkers. LLMs. CPU branch predictors. There are others.

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I will bet a shiny nickel that in 2028, you will be able to buy newly made spinning disks and that they will be economically justifiable for large media collections, backups and archives. Not sure I’d make that bet for 2033, though.

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