The Fallacy of 'Fail Fast': When the Tortoise Races the Hare Code
When the Agile movement promised to turn software development into a high-speed race, it forgot one crucial detail: even Ricky Bobby took pit stops. The mantra “Fail Fast, Fail Often” has become a sacred cow in tech circles, but this “Hacker’s Hail Mary” often leads to the very opposite of what we want - stable systems and meaningful iteration. The Fail Fast philosophy isn’t inherently wrong, but its damage comes from being treated as a universal truth rather than a context-dependent strategy....