Post ATWC36g55b9Iq7IQDI by chidgey@engineered.space
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 (DIR) Post #ATWC36g55b9Iq7IQDI by chidgey@engineered.space
       2023-03-11T21:19:26.171218Z
       
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       In my experience, the mantra of “Fail Fast, Fail Often” is the mantra of people with little technical experience, don’t want to listen to others, aren’t interested in thinking through the real-world practical considerations of what they’re tring to do and are usually also highly ignorant. It’s one of those Silicon Valley expressions I suppose, but in my youth we just called it “throwing sh!t at the wall to see what sticks”. Not a healthy strategy. Please stop it.
       
 (DIR) Post #ATWDCGcPbBkOENVn28 by aja@mathstodon.xyz
       2023-03-11T21:24:53Z
       
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       @chidgey You can read it as a tacit admission that their success is simply luck. If there’s little chance you will succeed and you don’t know how to make the odds better, your only strategy is to roll the dice a lot.
       
 (DIR) Post #ATWDDWxiJr8JD24u48 by chidgey@engineered.space
       2023-03-11T21:32:26.237826Z
       
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       @aja 100%
       
 (DIR) Post #ATWDWdYs0WMnB8ZIMS by martin@podcastindex.social
       2023-03-11T21:27:45Z
       
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       @chidgey I do not agree.I throw shit at the wall to see what sticks both in my private projects but also at work (where I work in the product department). The main difference is that at work we do more work up front, and also we don't release it until we know (through betas or user testing) that it's actually valuable. But I see that more as risk management.In eg. Podfriend I've definitely made crappy things that failed, which no one liked, which I then killed.
       
 (DIR) Post #ATWDWe91q5I2zHUAim by chidgey@engineered.space
       2023-03-11T21:35:58.718293Z
       
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       @martin Doing more work up front to understand requirements and iterative feature additions with sold regression testing isn’t FFFO, it’s incremental engineering - that’s fine.
       
 (DIR) Post #ATWEb8rBh3pjLtqdpQ by Ophidian@mastodon.social
       2023-03-11T21:42:11Z
       
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       @chidgey I think it’s good advice to avoid analysis paralysis, but I agree that far too many people use it as an excuse to blindly rush into something.