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Re:Engineering dogmas it's time to retire by disintegrator on Monday December 22, 2025 @05:23AM (#46352904)
I generally think most of the points made in the article are a little too extreme. Even feature flags are valuable if you’re trying to get something up for certain key customers to give feedback on while you iterate as an example. There is some hygiene required around maintaining and removing flags but I think that’s in the same bucket as writing tests, updating dependencies and refactoring code: worthwhile effort that additionally unlocks testing in production.
Re:Engineering dogmas it's time to retire by philipallstar on Monday December 22, 2025 @05:44AM (#46353032)
> I generally think most of the points made in the article are a little too extreme. Even feature flags are valuable

From the article:

> I definitely think you should use feature flags - just not abuse them.

Re:Engineering dogmas it's time to retire by AntonZ234 on Monday December 22, 2025 @09:52AM (#46354555)
I don't think the right solution is to have the opposite of them - all of them have some value. The point of the article is to not follow them blindly.