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by sccomps 546 days ago
Breaking things isn't ideal, but it's not the worst. What's truly problematic is when everything appears to be functioning perfectly, while underlying issues go unnoticed—exactly the situation in this story.
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Moving fast by releasing unreviewed code into critical production paths can lead to breaking things, as this story illustrated.

It’s the same cavalier attitude taken by startups that treat user data and privacy as something to worry about later, someday.