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[–] Michal@programming.dev 14 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

"Are you willing to own the risk? If so, what will it look like? Can you budget additional time for addressing these bugs, and draft contingency plans?"

[–] Bazoogle@lemmy.world 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

"You're overthinking it" - real response from my management

[–] IcyToes@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 hours ago

"True. It'll be perfectly fine, and because of that, you won't need me on call when it all goes dramatically wrong. If you need access to the repo, I'll add you in though. Good luck."

Or, if you've worked together a while "like I overthought it when we worked on x, and y went wrong, and I called it before it happened. Turns out I'm quite good at seeing car crashes in advance."

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 10 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

*Sticks fingers in ears* Can't hear you!