@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems
2026-04-29 07:09 UTC
@danluu do they? or do they mostly get to push the breakage down onto people who can't avoid it, where they can?
are there consequences for spending more time on a task you don't care about in the first place, other than "it takes longer" which in this case they clearly don't care about already?
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@danluu@mastodon.social 2026-04-29 07:12
@whitequark Depends on the project, I suppose, but I see a lot of cases where a "move fast and break things" dev spends more time debugging a single bug than it would've taken to chase out that whole class of bug with good testing. On the time savings thing, they can do something they want to do instead! I mean, I think almost nobody thinks this way but, in principle, someone could do this even if, in practice, people don't do this.