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Discussion on: Chernobyl: The True Cost Of Technical Debt

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Ben Halpern

Great read!

If we're talking about nuclear reactors and the metaphors with software development, my mind immediately goes to "The Law of Triviality", responsible for "bikeshedding".

The scenario is that in building a nuclear reactor, there might be 2,000 people simultaneously working on the project, but only a handful actually understand how the reactor works, so nobody questions their judgment and there aren't a lot of silly arguments. But everyone has the requisite knowledge to have an opinion on what materials to use to construct the bike shed, so that argument gets a disproportionate amount of attention.