alt Hacker NewsWhoever built the fence should have put a sign on it saying why.
Oh, and integration tests to check that the problem doesn't recur when the fence is replaced.
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tshaddox • today at 2:39 PM
Advocates of Chesterton’s Fence tend to miss that they’re applying selective pressure to favor systems that fail to document (or outright obscure) their purpose.
Of course, the much more obvious flaw of Chesterton’s Fence is that it trivially reduces to status quo bias.
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Context is that which is scarce.
It's hard to predict what parts of shared understanding we have today is going to be scarce tomorrow. And one can't serialize _all_ of that current shared understanding in documents and integration tests.
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/12/co...