"Not once have I regretted spending unbounded amounts of time investigating something fishy" While I agree with the gist here (heed warning signs, proactively

"Not once have I regretted spending unbounded amounts of time investigating something fishy" While I agree with the gist here (heed warning signs, proactively preempt failure), there are literally hundreds of "fishy" things, many/most of them low impact, that I could investigate on a given day, and my time is bounded. At the semi-formal dance of distributed systems, meandering investigation should be chaperoned by ruthless prioritization.