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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I see this fallacy almost every day, in tech and politics: 1. There is a problem 2. We believe that our solution will fix the problem 3. We built the solution 4. Therefore the problem is now fixed Bitch, no. You have to check. Let's talk about leading and trailing indicators.

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Debbie @laxmom1957.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Great post & so in agreement. I would only add that really need to understand the problem (or need), what caused it to begin with. Yes, in evaluating solutions, real feedback & listening is so key (learn so much), & that really seems to have become devalued. It’s become a closed-loop process.

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C. McGuinn Freeman @cmf406.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

But Pavel! They can "just log a bug" can't they? Can I tell you how many times I've heard "well has anyone complained? have they opened a case?" from management.

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Freckled Face Ninja @freckledfaceninja.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

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Jason Wachtel @wacamongus.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

This explains the never ending fixes to PFAS that will never get implemented. Noice!

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Ducking Grey Duck @duckinggreyduck.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

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Ouro @handle.invalid · 30/05/2025

A lot of times, Step 1 doesn't even exist. They just make up a solution and reverse engineer the argument to "solve" something unrelated.

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The Slim Dude 🇨🇦 @slimdude.ca · 30/05/2025

Validation/Verification: Validate the design through model and test. Verify that what is made from the design performs beyond minimum requirements. I worked in a R&D lab for 15 years.

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Femininecronomicon @hereforagoodtime.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Easy on the b word

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Government-Mandated AI Friend @helios-daedalus.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Forcing every stupid SV dude to do TDD on their terrible ideas. How? That's for them to figure out. If I don't see a green check mark next to your test, you're fired.

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Miles O'Briens Ghost @bigesta.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Ooooh I just gave this same statement on mentor ship. You can't just say hey I'm your mentor then never follow-up or checkin to make sure things are working out. That's your one responsibility checking in and making things are still good.

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M. Carach 📕 📖 ✍️ @anarcho-yam.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Omg this gives me PTSD

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Socially Distant Before It Was Cool @aaron-0.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

5. Several new problems consequently arise 6. Hallelujah! We can "solve" them as well! See how successful we are!

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

You might have heard about NPS. For those of you who don't, I'll briefly explain over the loud groans and boos from the rest of the audience. NPS is this thing. Everything about it is stupid but we're going to focus on one way in which it is stupid: it is a trailing indicator.

How likely are you to recommend Windows 10 to a friend or colleague?
Scale of 1 to 5 where 1 is not at all likely and 5 is extremely likely.

The comment field says: I need you to understand that people don't have conversations where they randomly recommend operating systems to one another.

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Erinn O'Dear @erinnthered.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

This is such a great and helpful thread brought down with gendered and ableist slurs. Why?

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Gordon Vincent He/Him @gordonvincent.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

The funny part: in American politics, EACH of the four points is a lie. More accurate: 1. I see a chance to steal tax money. 2. I break something that works. 3. I give it to my cronies and they pay me. 4. Fuck you.

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DM Skywalker @dmskywalker.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Ah… the ACA.

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Rick Schrenker @rickschren54.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

It’s even more complicated than that. Consider: What does it mean to verify that an application meets its requirements when the application consists of millions upon millions lines of code? I worked with medical devices in hospitals for 40+ years. Over the last ten or so I would frequently see …

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

The general case I'm more familiar with: 1) There is a problem. Something must be done. 2) An action was taken. 3) PROBLEM SOLVED FOREVER Didn't even do the analysis loop to see if this was a relevant action, much less if it worked, or if the problem was solved.

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Puddles Of Custard 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @puddlesofcustard.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

For example: theoceancleanup.com

theoceancleanup.com

The Ocean Cleanup

The Ocean Cleanup is a non-profit organization developing advanced technologies to rid the oceans of plastic. We aim to remove 90% of the floating plastic with the help of ocean cleanup systems and ri...

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⚧ Andi Jay is (gonna be) OK ↙︎↙︎↙︎ @no-spoons-no-forks.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

My dev management loves this. If the programmer says they're done, they're done. If they say it works, it works. When it invariably does not work, we hear "it worked on my machine". Exhausting, especially since it's *my* team that has to support deployment.

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timconnaughton.bsky.social @timconnaughton.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

“Bitch, no.” 👌

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Darren "Sunshine" Scherck 🌄👨‍🌾🌽🥔🇨🇦 @mhcca.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

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Christopher Owens @scavamungus.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

In quality management this general problem (in business and manufacturing) has been known since the work of Walter Shewhart in the years before WW2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDCA The recurrence of the problem is usually due to the poor incentives of the actors. They don't really want a durable fix.

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PDCA - Wikipedia

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Robin Marwick @electricland.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Continuous Improvement Cycle — Identify leads to Plan leads to Execute leads to Review leads to Identify. Using my phone’s crappy markup tool I have put question marks over Identify and Plan, a check mark over Execute, and an X over Review.

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Me & Taylor @vespalien.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

First identify problem, then identify its cause. Next try cures until you have one that works.

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lhuggs.bsky.social @lhuggs.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

It's called "marketing" and I think maybe daVinci invented it.

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Claudia Montague Wheatley @claudiamw.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

IMO the most common root of new-product disasters is when someone devises a "solution," THEN commences the hunt for a problem to apply it to. It's how the world got 5,897 apps for ordering sandwiches, but nothing that saves us from wasting time and water seeking our desired bath/shower temperature.

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Conjureman Hojo @metadata-labs.com · 30/05/2025

It's called testing, I think. Very important but too often overlooked.

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Pete Miles @petermiles.eurosky.social · 30/05/2025

Also - perhaps more in politics than tech - nobody seems to agree on what the problem is. #WickedProblems

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EJG @drobnox.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Let’s talk about unit testing, edge cases, and corner cases.

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Catherine Berry @isomeme.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Then there is the degenerate form of that fallacy, which accounts for most bad laws and projects: 1. There is a problem. 2. We must do something about the problem! 3. <X> is something. 4. Therefore we must do <X>! If you object to <X>, you clearly don't care about the problem.

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