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Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz
It is my firm belief that if you want to play on Einstein, you must have good engineering practice.
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It seems like we've been answering the "good enough" question a lot lately. I think it is the difference between a robot that is able to compete, and a robot that is able to be competitive. A team might be able to limp by on partially broken hardware, but they have to be willing to accept that the cost is measured in lost matches spent dead in the water, and time spent debugging systems with multiple active failure modes.
So fox, please feel free to make that value judgement for your own team, but please hesitate to make it for other teams without making them fully aware of the risks they are assuming. Covering the real risks and real costs does them a disservice.