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The problem with consistency is that if you're not already doing the right thing, you'll never do the right thing. Not even by accident.
by ByteJockey 5y ago
The problem with consistency is that if you're not already doing the right thing, you'll never do the right thing. Not even by accident.
- daniellarusso 5y agoI disagree. Even if you are doing the wrong thing consistently, one has a much greater chance of knowing what parameters can be tweaked to alter the outcome. Consistency is easier to monitor/log. It is easier to experiment. Without consistency, it is much more difficult to know which of your decisions changed the outcome, or was it just good or bad luck. Toyota and McDonald’s are successfully companies, but they are not perfect. Kaizen and consistency are not mutually exclusive.
- ByteJockey 5y agoPossible, and that does sound nice. But in my experience striving for consistency means that before improving something you have to go and change everywhere that pattern appears in 400 different code bases going back 20 years (and all of the documentation across however many platforms). As a result nobody ever improves things. As with all things YMMV.