LessonsFromApollo
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AI Doesn’t Need to Be Smarter—It Needs to Fail Better
When Apollo 11’s computer started flashing 1202 errors during the lunar descent, NASA didn’t panic. They landed anyway. That tiny, undocumented code bug—buried inside a computer with less processing power than a modern toaster—triggered alarms just minutes before Neil Armstrong touched down on the moon. The guidance computer was overloaded. It was trying to do…
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AI Doesn’t Need More Power — It Needs to Fail Better
In July 1969, a computer with less processing power than your car key fob saved the Apollo 11 mission. Not because it was flawless — but because it failed well. Just minutes before landing on the Moon, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s guidance computer started flashing alarms: 1201, 1202. Unknown codes. No time for a…
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