[mu_killnine]

As someone who works in manufacturing, I can't count the number of times I've been told to "just make it work". And, in reality, sometimes that truly is the best option in the immediate term to get a system working so you can make enhancements later. But I think that's the operative phrase: so you can enhance later.

The challenge is that once the immediate fire is out, it's easy to simply leave things in a half-baked state. That accumulates as technical debt.

Thankfully, most of the instances where I have had to deal with this has been purely software and not affected the lives and comfort of operators on the floor like with Tesla. But I can see how this happens. Even if the 'tent' becomes a permanent installation, I hope they spend the time and money to improve it to the necessary working standards that employees deserve.

[Barrin92]

>And, in reality, sometimes that truly is the best option in the immediate term to get a system working so you can make enhancements later.

well that depends on the industry. Toy manufacturer probably, aeorospace engineer, not so much. I would think of cars without drivers of belonging into the second category.

[just_myles]

Me too. Given the importance of the part and what would happen should it go out during operation do to cutting corners.

[majjam]

Normalization of deviance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19770562

[m463]

I wonder what is an acceptable "make it work"?

I had an old GM car and looked at it on a lift once and... "hey, what are those?"

shims. It had lots of shims from the factory to make the body straight.

I suspect there are lots of these "fixers" in many products that will work unnoticed, but people might not want to know they exist.