| ▲ | hinkley 3 hours ago | |
I have on a number of occasions wondered if there's some way to make something like the 2 key system for nuclear launch protocols work for making destructive changes in production. I request an action, and it only takes effect if someone else repeats it. The problem though is priming, and a two key system only fixes that the first couple times. In a year you're right back where you started. Because once I've suggested a course of action to you, the Primacy Effect makes you key your counterproposals to my initial bid, and if I'm enough off the mark we end up off the mark together. Add Recency Effect on top of it - if I haven't been wrong the last ten times I asked you to spot me, you slowly stop assuming I'm wrong this time. When the production outage happens, it comes out that your thought process was that I know what I'm doing and you didn't 'need' to be there for the last five times so you've zoned out and didn't catch my mistake. And if I start my ask by sending you a URL, if I cut and pasted the wrong URL you're stuck looking at the wrong thing with me and we both sail off into the canyon together. Still, if I'm careful to give you only the high-level request, and we derive the same solution from that request, then maybe a tool like that would still be useful. But the most important part of that interaction is still outside of the scope of any tool that could sanity check us. It's just process. | ||