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Money and time. Throughout my career, there's never been a moment where we're like "All right, let's sit down and assess where we are", or a "Ok we're finished with software engineering, let's do some chaos testing". There's always something that seems more important to do.

I'm now convinced most people are overworked and most SWE projects are overcommitting. I mean I'm currently the sole responsible for two codebases of nearly 300K LOC total, rebuilding the one into the other. At my previous jobs this would involve a fully staffed team of 4+ engineers, tester, product owner, etc - and they could probably use more.



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