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Field CTO shares 30-year lesson on confidently wrong answers in tech

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A Field CTO with an aerospace engineering background shares a thirty-year career lesson about confidently incorrect assumptions in production systems. He recounts a specific instance where a team spent months troubleshooting a database slowdown that occurred every Monday morning. The root cause was eventually traced to the storage platform's 'smart storage policy,' which was designed to optimize performance over the week but caused significant initial latency. AI

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · RLM Labs ·

    Thirty years of confident wrong answers

    <p>Thirty years of confident wrong answers</p> <p>I have spent thirty years walking into rooms where a distributed system was misbehaving in production and somebody was certain they knew why. Often they were wrong. Not stupid. Wrong, and confident.</p> <p>I went to school for aer…

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