I think it's a good approach, it: 1) Works as a club for developers to get the time they need to improve processes and code. "Do you want to be responsible for

I think it's a good approach, it: 1) Works as a club for developers to get the time they need to improve processes and code. "Do you want to be responsible for the HN article about the incident this will cause?" would give most managers pause. 3) Gives customers the confidence that you'll let them know when issues that might affect their experience or data are occurring. 4) Proves to customers that you can fix these issues when they come up. 5) Makes people wonder what's going on in your competitors that they're not hearing. On the other hand you don't get to pretend the sun shines out your ass, but that's disingenuous and most people will see through it anyway, you only trick the people that also want to go along with you.