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In this clip, Uncle Bob (Robert C. Martin) delivers a sharp critique of the so-called "burn-in" or "stabilization period" — that time when teams deploy a system and simply watch it run, hoping it doesn’t crash.
He calls this practice irresponsible, explaining that if you're relying on luck or gut feeling to decide whether your system is stable, then you're already in trouble. Stability shouldn't be a matter of time or chance — it should be demonstrated through a comprehensive, automated test suite that gives you immediate, repeatable confidence.
This is exactly the kind of thinking that aligns with Edsger Dijkstra’s warning: that testing can never truly prove the absence of bugs — and certainly not if you’re waiting for edge cases to surface randomly during a burn-in period.
Uncle Bob argues that real software quality comes from discipline, not superstition.

Sources:
   • Clean Code - Uncle Bob / Lesson 3