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> like cutting off your left arm because you still have your right arm

This ignores that it discards specialisation, not merely quantity, and that testers are generally cheaper than developers.




Re: specialization. Most people aren't ambidextrous afaik and will have a hard time retraining to do things with another hand. So I think the metaphor still holds




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