Sure. Diagnostics are unit tests. They can only tell you what's wrong if you think to look there. Just because you have a green check doesn't mean that your system works.
This is a system containing the equivalent of quintillions of lines of code, none of which you wrote. The code writers never really fix anything, they only patch. You can only test in production.
Note that even your one piece of data is potentially misleading. It could be a useful pointer, or it could be a complete red herring.
The weird part of your story is that you didn't describe the way internists would usually go about debugging a problem like this. They don't just run tests. They also use an elimination diet. Gut health is often food related, so they remove foods from your diet and see if anything gets better. It's a crummy kind of test, but that's what you get for testing in prod.
You also say "including MRI". Which hints that they didn't do a colonoscopy, because that's way more invasive than an MRI and would absolutely stick your in your mind.
I don't know why your doctors didn't do those tests (or if they did and you just didn't mention it). If they didn't, then it implies to me that there's something else going on, and I can't even begin to guess.
The point is that yes, we're all familiar with the difficulties of testing a live system with crappy code.
Sure. Diagnostics are unit tests. They can only tell you what's wrong if you think to look there. Just because you have a green check doesn't mean that your system works.
This is a system containing the equivalent of quintillions of lines of code, none of which you wrote. The code writers never really fix anything, they only patch. You can only test in production.
Note that even your one piece of data is potentially misleading. It could be a useful pointer, or it could be a complete red herring.
The weird part of your story is that you didn't describe the way internists would usually go about debugging a problem like this. They don't just run tests. They also use an elimination diet. Gut health is often food related, so they remove foods from your diet and see if anything gets better. It's a crummy kind of test, but that's what you get for testing in prod.
You also say "including MRI". Which hints that they didn't do a colonoscopy, because that's way more invasive than an MRI and would absolutely stick your in your mind.
I don't know why your doctors didn't do those tests (or if they did and you just didn't mention it). If they didn't, then it implies to me that there's something else going on, and I can't even begin to guess.
The point is that yes, we're all familiar with the difficulties of testing a live system with crappy code.
Yes.
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