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by tehlike 2575 days ago
This.

We accepted that bugs are fact of life, and instead of burdening the engineers with fear, we reduce the scope of damage through data: we use canaries, experiments and monitoring to limit the damage and react fast.

Going against human nature as a result just slow things down. The other benefits to above setup is engineers are less afraid to make mistakes and are willing to try ideas more since it is now very cheap to try them

There are times when you need to be more thorough such as medical devices, space programs, and so on as they might risk human life, but for the most part you will go really far with above

Disclaimer: current google employee