The problem with the “knife is sharp” argument is that it’s too generic. It can be deployed against most safety improvements. The modern world is built on driving accident rates down to near-zero. That’s why we have specialized tools like safety razors. Figuring out what to do to reduce accident rates is what postmortems are for - we don’t just blame human error, we try to fix things systematically.

As usual, the question is what counts as a reasonable safety improvement, and to do that we would need to go into the details.

I’m wondering what you think of the CaMeL proposal?

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/11/camel/#atom-everything