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This.

Problems that actually require such efforts should be exceedingly rare. If they're not, then there's a deeper issue in the production process that desperately needs fixing.

You don't want developers (or anybody) to be working that hard on a regular basis. Burnout is real, and in the long run the practice will cost the developers and the company dearly.



>If they're not, then there's a deeper issue in the production process that desperately needs fixing.

Five Whys.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_whys#:~:text=Five%20why....


I broke something the other day. Before I could even catch up on the messages they found my culprit commit. Oops. But also...yay. Easy rollback. Did not need me at all to figure out what buggery I had done.




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