A Case Against Using the Word 'Bad' in Engineering
I used to say bad version, bad rollout, bad payload. I stopped, because a version isn't good or bad in the abstract. It's a distribution of outcomes across a population of users, configs, and use cases. The same payload can be flawless for 99% and broken for 0.5%, and calling it bad collapses that spectrum onto one label that quietly dictates how you triage, communicate, and remember the incident.