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Re:38% of bugs at Airbnb could have been prevented by using ... by bradleyjg on Monday February 11, 2019 @07:00AM (#19133790)
> things like "lack of reliable, quality devtools" and "inability to customize interfaces" bother highly-productive engineers

I've seen people go down a rabbit hole of optimizing tooling to the point where it crowds out using those tools to actually accomplish anything. At some point worse is better.

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Re:38% of bugs at Airbnb could have been prevented by using ... by wutbrodo on Monday February 11, 2019 @02:22PM (#19137416)
Of course; if you ignore the possibility of optimization, then the claim becomes almost a taoutology. In practice however, I notice this a lot less often than I notice the reverse.
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