
Highlights From The Comments On IRBs
Astral Codex Ten Podcast
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The Importance of Code Changes in Startups
Tech and other industries have a reputation for breaking things quickly. But IRB is often ignored in favour of quick fixes that don't make any difference to the end user. The new process rarely catches any problems because we already learned our lesson, writes Scott from Linkin Post. This reminds me of a concept in software engineering I read in the Google site reliability engineering handbook. It's called 'error budgets' which are supposed to balance progress with safety.
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