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Any person who would not go back and do that necessary redesign is unfit to call themselves a craftsperson.

Any organization that would not demand you do that necessary redesign is a organization unfit for producing critical systems.

Any organization that would go even further and prevent/de-prioritize you from doing that necessary redesign is unfit to call whatever it is that they do “engineering”.

Why would you want to work at such a dystopian hellscape if you have the choice?

Note that this is only about shipping the known incomplete design to customers because it “works”.

And to get ahead of it, yes, startups selling systems held together by spit and twine are perfect examples of “unfit for critical systems”; you should not bet critical things on them until they mature.



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