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by lmarcos 1907 days ago
On a more serious tone: what would take to the IT industry to switch from "move fast and get shit done" to "move slow and make things'?

Geninuosly asking. If it becomes a thing, it would only be because the developers push it further... and HN is full of devs. I doubt such a perspective would ever come from "lean" managers and the like.

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This already comes from regulators, e.g. "right to explanation" laws which require any automated legaly binding decisions to be explained.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_explanation

A generous amount of free time.

I move slow and make things because my livelihood doesn't depend on it. I have practically unlimited free time and sufficient income, so I can build things that don't matter.

This isn't the case for more people. Time is money, and being slow means you're not earning much for your time.

I feel that at this point nothing except very severe regulatory fines would help.

It's just that the current way of doing things is financially incentivized.