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TheCookieMonster  ·  1845 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Uber's 5.6 Seconds of Incompetence

Sure, it was facebook's stance that dev teams prioritise a fast development cycle over never breaking the flagship product in production - radical for a company that size. I said that usage was "way out of the context it was ever said genuinely" because Facebook motivational speeches about deprioritising the uptime of a website has nothing to do with a department of a different company who's developing driving software, NORAD certainly doesn't strike me as "move fast and break things" culture, Boeing's decision was clearly about training requirements, not moving fast, and even Facebook abandoned "move fast and break things".

It's possible the self-driving dev teams were following a "move fast and break things" mantra, but I doubt it, we have more mundane explanations like company structure and pressure at all company layers to demonstrate progress.

If you're using "move fast and break things" as a pithy description of aftermath of Silicon Valley companies, fine, but by repurposing a slogan for developers and saying "software folx" it came across as suggesting safety-critical development teams subscribe to this mantra and that's why there are problems.

(Not sure what the dig at Libra is about, I never paid much attention to Libra - surely it doesn't break anything that Bitcoin hasn't already?)