Tag: engineering culture

Larry Tesler gave us cut, copy, and paste. He also gave us an uncomfortable truth: complexity never disappears. It just moves. The only question is who gets stuck with it.

Everyone loves a low TTD. Management strokes their egos over it, dashboards celebrate it, and alert systems multiply to chase it. Here is why that is the wrong metric entirely.

We've turned "frictionless" into a religion. But a system with zero resistance is just a system waiting to slide off a cliff. Maybe we've accidentally engineered our own stupidity.