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I wouldn't want my electric grid engineers (or any other kind of infrastructure) to be anything less than skeptical of change.


The same dichotomy exists in developer tools as opposed to recreational software.

Yes, please rapidly innovate my Facebook and NetFlix UIs, and even pipe those changes to me automatically. On the other hand, please methodically roll out changes to XCode and Django, and let me take them when I have time.


Iterate services quickly, not the tools to build them.

Netflix down? Oh well. Latest Django build breaks thousands of sites. No thank you.




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