Rushed Implementation Pitfalls

Commenters critique a practice or approach prone to failure due to haste, complexity, and human error, arguing that rushing often leads to major issues rather than advocating 'move fast and break things'.

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Sample Comments

xfs Sep 21, 2018 View on HN

It's not always a good thing. In the haste of fixing things introspection of root causes may be neglected...

akvadrako May 30, 2023 View on HN

It will be done wrong, so you have to take that into account.

KingMob Dec 14, 2023 View on HN

Doing the wrong thing more efficiently doesn't make it into the right thing.

trinsic2 Oct 21, 2024 View on HN

Agreed. Too many places where things can go wrong.

quotha Jan 30, 2019 View on HN

If you try a bit harder, maybe you might be able to think of something that's wrong with this practice.

kebab Apr 4, 2022 View on HN

It's still worth interrogating even if it's an oversight.

binary132 Apr 14, 2024 View on HN

Just because it worked out doesn’t mean it was fine and the way things should be. There are definitely better ways.

etchalon Oct 24, 2023 View on HN

It turns out doing things the "correct" way is harder than just not doing that.

Aqueous Mar 3, 2014 View on HN

There's nothing intrinsically wrong with that if you do it correctly. But this was not done correctly.

colordrops Sep 28, 2018 View on HN

No one is perfect. Perhaps we should look past flaws like this when more important problems are handled with skill.