#programming

The risky PR is rarely the big one...it's the one carrying money code, a migration, or a red build, regardless of size. Here's what I look for when one lands, and the product I'm building so senior attention goes where the risk actually is.

Deleting a year-dead feature flag turned a forgotten feature back on and broke production...here's why flag cleanup is a runtime change, not tidying, and how the context you need decays while the flag sits there looking harmless.