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It sounds less like risk averse and more like cover-your-ass though; go through long checklists and committees and people so that no one person can be held responsible for any problems.

The closest thing you'll see in tech will be at back-end software like banks, insurance companies, pension funds, investment companies, embedded engineering / SCADA, ERP systems, etc. The "move fast and break things" mindset seems to mainly be a thing in Silicon Valley internet companies / start-ups, and mainly the latter because they're driven to pump up their own value instead of provide reliable software. Because if Twitter is down, it's an inconvenience, but if airplane software fails, lives are on the line.



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