98% browser support sounds safe. The thread did the math and it isn't (whynothugo.nl)
His thesis lands as a rule: 'truly robust engineering isn't about what works for most; it's about gracefully handling the edge cases.' The thread split on whether that framing is even right.
The sharpest replies went past the post itself: 98% quietly compounds. At 99% right per step a 20-pane dashboard breaks nearly one load in five, and an LLM that nails 99% of tool calls still fumbles almost every session.
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