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Don't pretend you don't understand.

Failures like this aren't an individual programmer's responsibility. I can guarantee you programmers have been asking to implement staggered releases and management shut them down. In fact another poster in this thread showed that even customers asked for that and were rejected with 50 pages of corporate BS which basically amounted to "we don't wanna".

Same goes for other safety mechanisms like testing.

> Maybe we need to criminalize groundless accusations too.

I never accused them of intentionally causing harm. Please read my comment more carefully. I said what i said because in the current environment, even doing this intentionally would not lead to sufficient punishment to top management.




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