Everything Is Fine: The Comfortable Lie of the Green Pipeline
The electrician was standing in front of my panel. Rows of switches. None labeled. He had a marker. He put it back in his pocket. I asked why. “Because I’m not sure which does what. And a wrong label is more dangerous than no label.” The next electrician would trust it blindly. He walked away. The switches stayed blank. I thought about that for a long time. Then I recognized the pattern everywhere in software. ...