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5 Biases Ruining Engineering Decisions

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Mind map of engineering cognitive biases branching into Sunk Cost, Bikeshedding, NIH Syndrome, Confirmation Bias, and Status Quo Bias.
Mind map of engineering cognitive biases branching into Sunk Cost, Bikeshedding, NIH Syndrome, Confirmation Bias, and Status Quo Bias.
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What it shows

  • Sunk cost keeps failing rewrites alive because teams already spent months.
  • Bikeshedding wastes hours debating PR formatting instead of DB latency.
  • Not-invented-here syndrome forces teams to reinvent mediocre message queues.

The takeaway

Great architecture fails when human psychology overrides objective engineering constraints.

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