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> But just ironing out the kinks.

"Ironing out the kinks" in production on live data is stupid.





All your production code has been entirely bug-free?

Nothing has ever gone wrong in production in ways that were fine on dev?

You've never written code to improve one metric, only to discover in prod it made another metric worse that nobody had considered?

How about a little humility for the ways in which we're all fallible and usually just trying to do our best?


My fallibility doesn't make stupid actions any less stupid. I've done stupid things myself, like ssh into prod to apply a "simple, one-liner hotfix" which ended up upgrading a minor annoyance into a partial outage.



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