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That "fail faster" quote from tech folks is just an excuse to ship broken stuff
I saw some startup CEO post "fail fast, fail often" on LinkedIn and thought, try telling that to the customer whose car dies on the highway because you rushed the firmware. I run a shop in Akron and the amount of garbage I pull out of modern cars from that mindset is unreal. Has anyone else noticed this quote gets abused to skip quality testing?
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ivanb413mo ago
That fail fast, fail often stuff is just a way to push garbage out the door. I've pulled so many half baked electronics out of cars that died way too soon because someone wanted to 'iterate' instead of just testing it first.
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reese_fox3mo ago
Man @ivanb41 is spot on, I've seen the same thing in electronics that should have lasted years but crapped out in months. What worked for me was just adding a simple burn-in step where we run stuff for 48 hours straight before it ever touches a customer's car, caught so many bad solder joints that way. It's not fancy or fast but it saved us from having to explain why something died on the highway.
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