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Distributed Systems + Frontier Safety/Interp · Week 28 · Day 3/7
DAY 192 / 210

Intro to Safety in Distributed Systems

This day launches the distsys-safety phase by establishing core mental models for fault tolerance and consistency under partial failure. It sets the foundation for later weeks that apply these models to production AI engineering patterns.

45 min target📝 2 quiz Qs

Resources

Deliverable

journal entry summarizing one safety fallacy observed in app/maku/page.tsx

Quiz · 2 questions

1. Which fallacy most directly explains why rate-limiter.ts may fail silently across nodes?

2. Name one concrete symptom of the 'network is reliable' fallacy in a multi-region AI service.

Journal