I notice there are a lot of people in this comment section who either haven’t re...

ncr100 · on April 15, 2022

I read it.

I think there should be a follow-on discussion here about programming paradigm that empowers a "do what I mean not what I say" mentality.

Atlassian's recent fiasco https://www.atlassian.com/engineering/april-2022-outage-upda... is another motivating example for such a paradigm.

The author of the blog touches on this paradigm as a UI element. Software engineers should have pushed that as a "gotcha" up through Product Management to expose controls for such a risky scenario.