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Comic #10: Prod Is The Test

July 15, 2026

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Every test suite is a theory about what users will do. Production is what they actually do. The comic 'Prod is the Test' is up on the site. It started as a note to myself about why I keep shipping small and watching, instead of writing more tests for imagined failure modes. https://www.jakelawrence.xyz/comics/prod-is-the-test

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A test suite is a theory. Production is the experiment that proves or breaks it.

That's the idea behind the new comic: jakelawrence.xyz/comics/prod-is-the-test

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A test suite is a theory about what users will do. Production is the experiment that settles it. New comic on the site. It started as a note to myself about why I keep shipping small and watching, rather than writing more tests for imagined failure modes.

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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

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A test suite is a theory about what users will do. Production is the experiment that settles it.

New comic on this: jakelawrence.xyz/comics/prod-is-the-test

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A test suite is a theory about what users will do. Production is the experiment that settles it. New comic up: jakelawrence.xyz/comics/prod-is-the-test

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