I encourage you to read NTSB accident reports. The work the investigators do and the reports they assemble are unparalleled. There are also good parallels to complex systems in general.

It's possible that we get to a place where everyone cooks their own meal (vibe coded app), and only goes out to eat sometimes (official app store). Spreadsheets are the same, you can get a lot of milage, and most still buy and use closed source software.

Reminds me of this: https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/

I was offering a tangible example of where the thing being proposed was a failure.

(true stories)

Here's how this will pan out.

- A number of "officials" (friends) will get cushy jobs for running this program.

- It will lose millions of tax dollars

- a small portion of the population will get cheaper produce for a photo op

- Mamdani and friends will call it a success

- But net, this will be net negative for the city (ie. tax dollars to crony jobs and subsidizing food for some).

Whats the point? The USSR has tried this (subsidized grocery stores centrally planned). Lets not.

If on the other hand, the issue was hey its expensive to bring produce XYZ, so why don't we work to reduce that cost by legalizing Kei [1] trucks and exempt from tolls. Now that would be something interesting.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kei_truck

How is that not casus belli?

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarkha

How much energy, how long is the pulse, how close were the drones?

Regardless I think the primary challenge with these systems will be energy on site and a surge of it during waves of attacks. Charged up capacitors can only handle so many waves.