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by james_s_tayler 2138 days ago
And they will go wrong.

Hey can you put together this trillion piece jigsaw puzzle? Oh and we need you to sign off on it. You're sure it's not going to kill anyone right?

Works on my machine!

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Then we need you to sign off on it again after we change it next week, and the week after that.
Considering the number of large, established places that don't even do code reviews - I'm okay with this being a thing.
> Oh and we need you to sign off on it

Then you say "no". Business "needs" are important for replaceable serfs with no power to say otherwise; when the business needs engineering sign-off, you tell them what they needs to do.