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by acesubido 2499 days ago
> they think of all the possibilities that go wrong and start from the edge cases inwards, which individually represent a small piece of functionality.

> I would rather they deliver a working chunk and just log.error when missing information is present.

Another way to look at this: they might be "afraid" of doing log.error and thus trying to overpolish; it could be a symptom of a lack in internal alignment on how to support a customer or meet customer expectations when the code hits that log.error line.

Sounds like a scoping problem.