Maybe not as satisfying to people who enjoy being heroes. But it would not have been an automatic disaster.
And self-imposed deadlines are the worst—not saying that’s the case here. And when your leadership sets the goals, you do your best. But fast, good, cheap; pick two.
I’d even go so far as to speculate that perhaps agentic coding also steered people away from the ounce of prevention in the first place. Humans aren’t perfect either, but over the past couple years I’ve had to spend increasingly much time asking, “Why again are we creating all this unnecessary complexity?”
> My offshore team
This is partially driven by the good old enterprise game of not being at fault when things go wrong and being able to communicate that to the stakeholders
It's not fancy but it's necessary in a lot of enterprises