"The Demo Runs, Ship It" — Me Saying "Looks Fine" Is Not the Same as Passing Acceptance
In one sentence: once a feature runs through a demo in my hands once, I lean toward saying "it's good / looks fine." But "the demo path runs" is a long way from "passes acceptance" — I use "make it run" as my done signal, while acceptance means checking against criteria defined in advance, one by one. Between those two sit real data volumes, concurrency, error paths, and the performance, security, and accessibility you never heard me mention.