> From: Randy Bush <ra...@psg.com> > Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2019 6:56 PM > > > I suspect simple bugs are found by vendor, complex bugs are not > > economic to find. > > the running internet is complex and has a horrifying number of special cases > compounded by kiddies being clever. no one, independent of resource > requirements, could build a lab to the scale needed to test. > Yes what can break will break, yet here we are exchanging emails, I think your statement assumes a vast search space. No need to solve the whole thing, just to make my tiny part a bit better. No need to solve my tiny part for eternity, just for the near term. Yes there will always be this long tail, but with what one would deem a sufficiently low probability, in the intersection of the above search spaces.
> and then there is ewd's famous quote about testing. > Yes human brains have their limits, hence we invented AI to help us solve complexity. Though in a sense it's just shifting the complexity to yet another layer above... adam