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by sfilargi 2075 days ago
“I am struggling to imagine the circumstances where ..... can break ....”

If only I had a penny for everyone I heard this argument and we ended up breaking regression tests or something really obscure in the qa or customer setup

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I always catch myself when I'm saying it and try to make sense of the cognitive dissonance of saying nothing will break and being somewhat convinced that something, somewhere will.
Fear the unknown unknowns!
everytime* not everyone

And yes, I have done it so many times myself too