[vjust]

YOLO-level development is a slippery slope... We had a case where 2 backends from 2 teams needed to interoperate.. to support a much talked-up UI/functional feature that was supposed to make our product standout from rivals. What was implemented was a rube-goldberg like contraption on the backend, where I dreaded being on-call as the talked-up UI feature was rolled out to more and more customers.

Oh yeah, we had unit tests all right, fragility didn't prevent that since you couldn't commit otherwise.

So there was no safety net. Just a constant dread of customers actually using the feature. So "fast-and-fragile development" resulted in a worst-case scenario as far as engineers were concerned.

The author says : "Their reports won’t tell the manager that they are having a terrible on-call experience". This was exactly what happened to me. And I quit one day, this was a big factor, two weeks out of a month (in my rotation) I'd be on the hook for supporting this morass of problems.