> Excluding malicious action, most people make a (semi) critical error sometime in their career, especially if you work on the ops side of things, these can oft

> Excluding malicious action, most people make a (semi) critical error sometime in their career, especially if you work on the ops side of things, these can often be disasterous. Engineering who claim they never have made a mistake that usually either not working on anything that has value or are just lucky in my opinion. engineering who are afraid to say they made a mistake are a cultural issue aswell, because it delays troubleshooting during incidents. Bingo. I’ve made mistakes that have taken down systems or caused them to silently fail. The worst mistake I’ve made took down basically my entire company for about 20 minutes. This turned out not to be critical, because our site was still operating, and it was just external data feeds that weren’t getting updated, but I freaked out about it for a minute. After that minute, I went and got help, and we fixed it. Had I not, I probably could have fixed it myself, but it would have taken much longer and cost much more than it did. If you’re in an environment that doesn’t recognize that, you aren’t in a place that actually values and understands engineering work.