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The worst thing is you end up normalizing failure - nobody even bothers checking whether it's a "real" failure until it's failed a few times in a row. At that p
by l0b0 6y ago
The worst thing is you end up normalizing failure - nobody even bothers checking whether it's a "real" failure until it's failed a few times in a row. At that point you might have introduced other test failures which nobody noticed, or someone might have built on top of the broken code, making a fix harder, and so on and so on.
- hinkley 6y agoIndeed. This pattern though is often the point at which an intervention is possible. Almost like it has to happen repeatedly before you can get consensus to stop it.