The Reviewer Isn't the Bottleneck (rishi.baldawa.com)

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When you call the humans who keep production safe “the bottleneck” you’re painting a very specific picture. The reviewer as the obstacle. The gate as friction. Something to route around. Cue in the Balrog scene from Lord of the Rings. That picture determines what you build. The tools to remove reviewers look different from tools to support them.

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[-] robojeb@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

Ideally you can do that, but even the most well designed software ends up needing a larger refactor/reorganization that will touch a large portion of the code base.

My boss likes to say "you aren't qualified to design something until you have built it once" which I do feel rings true. This inevitably leads to at least one major redesign for a significant codebase.

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