System Colic

System Colic Note: An LLM was not used in writing this article. Colic is a thing that some newborn babies go through. Your newborn baby cries for hours on end, every day, for weeks. And they’re by all measures healthy. Experts don’t know what causes it and they don’t have any remedies for it. As a parent, you and your partner pretty much lose your marbles and start questioning all your life choices that lead up to this moment. You will try all the remedies; massages, positions, “anti-colic drops”, whatever you can. The NHS page on colic suggests you ask for support from friends, family and their helpline. That’s an extreme case of the broader experience of having a baby, which is often just trying to figure out what’s wrong with them, with very little to go on, because they can’t talk to you, and actually they scream at you, making it harder to discuss nuanced hypotheses with your partner. Complex software systems aren’t babies. But they can be a bit like that. They’re going wrong,…