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Discussion on: How does one explain to non-tech people that it's difficult to anticipate all potential errors before deployment?

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Eugene Cheah • Edited

To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity. ~ William Arthur Ward

What you suggested, on normalizing problems, would really help to get other to understand the problem, instead of demanding them to be magically solved.

It would definitely help the developers who are working on it, and who may have made mistakes on it - fix it. And if it's a resource constraint, perhaps lead to more resources needed for it.

Saying this as someone who's code has crashed live systems in active use before 😢