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by AlotOfReading 20 days ago
Programming skill is similar to driving skill. You can hire the best people in the world and there'll still be incidents. The people who are most skilled may even be more incident-prone because they have the skills to take more risks.

Don't bet the company on no one ever making a mistake. Set up a system where the unintentional risks are minimized and the consequences of inevitable failures are mitigated by seatbelts and insurance policies.

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Seat belts are one thing, a car with a top speed of 35 mph is something else entirely.