Every test suite is a theory about what users will do. Production is what they actually do, and it will find the failure mode you didn't imagine.
New comic on the site: 'Prod is the Test'. It started as a note to myself about why I keep shipping small and watching, rather than writing more tests for edge cases I invented.
https://www.jakelawrence.xyz/comics/prod-is-the-test
Jake Lawrence
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