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Tian Wen's avatar

As always I appreciate you avoid binary thinking. The question isn’t whether “fail fast” is right or wrong, it is in which circumstances it should be applied. Website design? Maybe, with caveats. Submarine construction? No.

“OceanGate’s CEO, Stockton Rush, lived up to his name”

I love this kind of witty writing!

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Argo's avatar

Seems like a complete misapplication of the slogan to me.

You build a minimum viable product/fail early fail often... prototype/proof of concept. The beta test is a few iterations away, and the final product a few more.

The slogans work great when used like that, because the only way to know if something works is really to try it.

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