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I don’t disagree with the maybe, because of course some bugs really aren’t that bad. But especially in the case of those architectural bugs, it is incredibly difficult to be confident that the impact of the bug is as limited as you think it is. Additionally, if you couldn’t take the time to fix it in dev, it is also pretty likely that it will live in production for a long time, possibly forever. And these bugs have a habit of prompting code smelly workarounds, interacting with other bugs, and generally making your system harder to reason about.

It could be the right decision to not fix an architectural bug. But it is a gamble, with a very long tail of cost for getting it wrong.




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