Argumentum Ad Colossum
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A blog post introducing 'argumentum ad colossum', a term describing the fallacy of assuming something is true or better because it's large or complex.
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I was sat down by one engineering manager who told me "we do code reviews" and told me a lot of things we also supposedly did. Once I got into the code I found we didn't do most of the things he said we did so I don't think we were doing the code reviews either.
He still posts on LinkedIn about managers who say they do code reviews and don't.
At that same startup we had problems with the investors not trusting management (things were disorganized, I certainly couldn't get people to change their behavior in areas where that was my responsibility) and they thought OKRs, an import from Google, were an answer but of course they weren't.