> world’s most important products

Really? If we delete CC today, will humanity stop functioning? Nope. It's so far from one of the world's most important products.

About 5 9s, reliability is just one of the axes which suffers from fast generation.

There are a lot more: architecture, accuracy, etc...

> I have a feeling it’s possible to ship fast without drastic quality drops

at what scale and for how long?