Opining on code reviews and tests? Disclose whether you're on a PagerDuty rotation
vboykis · x · 2026-09-08
Engineer vboykis has a sharp take: anyone writing opinions on whether to do code reviews, write tests, or any part of production lifecycles should have to disclose whether they personally are part of a PagerDuty rotation. The point: advice on engineering practices carries different weight depending on whether the speaker actually bears the 3 a.m. incident load — a timely jab as AI-generated engineering hot takes multiply.
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