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A pressure gauge on a pipeline resting calmly in the green zone while the pipe behind it bulges under strain, illustrating a load test report that reads normal while the system is close to failure

Why Load Test Numbers Lie

Four structural biases in load testing all point the same way: toward optimism. What the numbers hide, and the five questions that expose it.
A medical imaging machine dissolving from left to right into geometric data blocks, illustrating hardware becoming software

How Software Became a Medical Device

The Therac-25 reached the US market in 1983 by declaring itself equivalent to something already on sale. Forty years later, 97% of AI-enabled medical devices get there the same way. How the category was assembled backwards, one definitional crisis at a time.