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“There’s no systemic problem.” Meanwhile, the operators were allowed to leave a parameter blank and the default was to set a deletion time bomb. Not systemic
by ok_dad 2y ago
“There’s no systemic problem.”
Meanwhile, the operators were allowed to leave a parameter blank and the default was to set a deletion time bomb.
Not systemic my butt! That’s a process failure, and every process failure like this is a systemic problem because the system shouldn’t allow a stupid error like this.
- joshuamorton 2y agoIf you're arguing that that was the systemic problem, then it's been fully fixed, as the manual operation was removed and so validation can no longer be bypassed.
- rezonant 2y agoI think you glossed over the importance of the term process failure. The idea is that this one particular form missing the appropriate care is indicative of a wider lack of discipline amongst the engineers building it. Definitionally, you cannot solve a process problem by fixing a specific bug.
- joshuamorton 2y ago"we removed the system that can enable a process failure" fixes the process failure. I didn't misunderstand anything.
- cowboylowrez 2y agojoshua nails it. companies do not do root cause anymore. its just the great enshitification, google edition.