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by saagarjha 1436 days ago
I assume larger companies can deal with temporary mistakes on the order of one engineer’s salary.
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Oh, they certainly can, some better than others. Though personally I'd most certainly want to avoid such situations.

First, to retain an air of "vaguely knows what they're doing" about me, even though everyone makes mistakes and that should be treated as something that's okay - especially if you can limit the impact of mistakes, like with automated spending limits.

Secondly, because I wouldn't want to risk doing something like that in a personal project, given that my wallet is likely to be much thinner than those of organizations.

As in, paying for that engineer was a mistake all along?
No. It doesn't really impact the company's bottom line if your software engineering org is 100 people making $20k a month and someone accidentally wastes $4k of EBS disk. It's nice if you don't waste it, of course, but "oops, filled up the disk with 'y' output" is better than "yeah actually all of those files are pretty important, I think team X is using them" because you can instantly delete it, rather than doing a multi-month project to see if team X really is using the files.