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I'm no fan of the "knowing-all-that's-best" trend of articles either, but here's why I don't mind this:

Facebook popularized the idea of "move fast and break things." Move fast, by all means, and don't be paralyzed by fear of all change whatsoever, but I really didn't appreciate it when my classmates thought that by being willing to break things constantly in our group project they were showing us all their potential to be the next Mark Zuckerberg or Steve Jobs. Or when some of those classmates were hired as my team mates and brought that crap into a customer-facing service. I interviewed at Facebook and was scared by the cowboy mentality I sensed in every room and with every interviewer. I'd like the glorification of that to be balanced by, "hey here's some concrete data demonstrating they have some real issues that could clearly be addressed better."




I've seen that "move fast and break things" mantra used in projects, and yeah, some people think they're being the next Zuckerberg when doing so. But what I've (almost) never seen is someone who actually fixes the shit when it's broken.

Fine, go ahead and break stuff, but be willing and able to actually FIX it afterwards. That part never seems to get picked up.


Better yet, move fast and have good test coverage that can run fast and does so automatically.


"The client won't want to pay for testing"

"We'll circle back and add tests later"


"The client won't want to pay for testing" becomes "the client will pay for not testing"

My deepity for the day...




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