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by lucasfcosta 20 days ago
Author here. Well noted. I do think backpressure might not be the ideal analogy/term.

It comes from previous posts I’ve come across, but I haven’t considered exactly what you mentioned. That’s on me.

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Maybe it's more like shift-left testing [1]? You're trying to move some checks to earlier in the process, if I understood you correctly, and get cheaper feedback loops.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift-left_testing

Test Driven Development. There's more than several /tdd skills that are popular.
lol your comment sounds like a Claude apology
I had a colleague called Claude. Half of the company was blaming everything on him...
Insincere apologies ought to be mocked to shit but this apology seemed well-meant. (I know you're not mocking them and the last sentence is actually something Claude would say.)

I post this angry comment because LLMs are colonizing the language we use for creating an earnest and genuine tone in online discussion and I sometimes wonder if the suspicion surrounding LLM-ish language is worse for the health of our online spaces than the LLM slop itself. Thinking about it, I don't think it is; and it would be impossible to measure anyway.

Honestly? The point lands.