I loved Julia's blogs as a young dev, they were like watching Star Trek TNG episodes. All hope and naive solutions. I remember reading this one especially back

I loved Julia's blogs as a young dev, they were like watching Star Trek TNG episodes. All hope and naive solutions. I remember reading this one especially back then. Then you learn the tests are a monster stack themselves, often taking more effort than the actual features they are guarding. Then you are part of one of these 'blameless postmortems' and realise everyone has an opinion and there are now 80 outcome actions, half of them complete horse shit but they are high priority now and jammed into your sprints for the next 6 weeks.