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I find this post super confusing, like I can’t tell if it’s satire or just super strawmanning.

The problem clearly isn’t that “you can delete prod” — the problem is that you can “fat finger a command line and accidentally delete prod”.

You can absolutely make it harder to delete prod—since this is something few people are doing regularly—by requiring some kind of confirmation. That’s the process change being discussed, and is the smart response.




You can make anything harder. You can't make it impossible. You are also a terrible leader if you treat every mistake as a positive.

No strawman. Just straight up reasonable discipline that has worked for thousands of years.


> You are also a terrible leader if you treat every mistake as a positive.

Zero people advocated this approach in this thread.

> No strawman.

Noun: strawman.

1. An intentionally misrepresented proposition that is set up because it is easier to defeat than an opponent's real argument.


No, the person I replied to did.

Yes, still no strawman.


“thank the junior for discovering a flaw” — presumably what you’re referring to — is not the claim you’re making.


Being able to alter the code is not a flaw. Making the mistake of altering the code incorrectly is.




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