Error budgets balance reliability against velocity
Added 2026-07-14 · Last verified 2026-07-14
Google SRE popularized the error budget: 100% reliability is the wrong target; you set an allowed failure rate, and while you're within budget you ship features, when you exceed it you stop and harden. Lesson: make the reliability-vs-speed tradeoff explicit and measurable. For agents: define an acceptable task-failure rate and let it gate whether you ship new capabilities or spend the cycle hardening the loop.
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