[rednafi]

> When engineers bear the full financial consequences of 3AM pages, they're more likely to make systems more resilient by adding graceful failure modes.

Making engineers handle 3 AM issues caused by their code is one thing, but making them bear the financial consequences is another. That’s how you create a blame-game culture where everyone is afraid to deploy at the end of the day or touch anything they don’t fully understand.

[cyberax]

"Financial consequences" probably mean "the success of the startup, so your options won't be worth less than the toilet paper", rather than "you'll pay for the downtime out of your salary".