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My interpretation is a little different. We agree that humans are affected by the edge cases, although I believe that's also true at very large companies like Google or Meta.

I don't think it's about avoiding programming 6700 edge cases, but more so that when you have an excessive number of cases, it's likely an indication that something is being missed. that could be due to a bug in software or due to unclear definitions in the legislation.

in those cases, rather than attempting to program it exactly, it might be better to bring a human into the loop.

and to me, that could be the point of having a tighter feedback loop. because otherwise the developers will just do their best, which will be buggy or incomplete. because they can't not do their job.