Jeremiah Lowin — Make Original Mistakes (EP.130)
Infinite Loops
What's the Biggest Mistake of the Week?
The CEO of Prefect says naming things is a superpower. When we name things at Prefect, we care deeply about them. It matters because it's a way of communicating to a future developer or even yourself. The company agonizes over the precise words that we use and I messed up one of these by using a word that was a synonym but not the exact right word for what I wanted. This led to a series of actions that were almost, but not entirely unlike what we were trying to do.
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