"When a program has nothing surprising to say, it should say nothing." Which sounds good in theory, until you run into issues like this: https://www.youtube.co

"When a program has nothing surprising to say, it should say nothing." Which sounds good in theory, until you run into issues like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLdRBsuvVKc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLdRBsuvVKc TLDW: Most of the Gitlabs outage where they deleted the primary prod and backup prod database could have been solved if they just waited for the command line op to complete - but because of a lack of feedback they thought it had frozen, leading to several other plans which made the situation worse.