What Is Cognitive Engineering? Building Technology for Human Minds

The Incident That Should Change Everything Last month, a routine Cloudflare configuration update took down a large portion of the internet. ChatGPT, Uber, government websites, and countless downstream services went dark. The cause was mundane: a Bot Management configuration file grew too large and triggered a latent failure mode. A month earlier, AWS us-east-1 suffered a cascading outage when…