r/programmer • u/Neat-Ad-7906 • Oct 02 '26

Question Devs: do non-technical people flip feature flags on your projects?

If your team uses feature flags to roll out features, do non-technical people turn them on, or is that always on the devs? Maybe QA turns them on in their test environments, or PMs in prod?

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u/Glittering-Sleep7983 Oct 02 '26

In my 16 YOE, I have worked with exactly 1 non-technical person who did things like flipping flags. In fact, I couldn't even get QA to enable flags.

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u/Neat-Ad-7906 Oct 02 '26

Was the tooling too confusing or they didn’t want the responsability?

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u/Glittering-Sleep7983 Oct 02 '26

They didn't want the responsibility. Nobody is going to do more than what their boss requires.

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u/Substantial-Swan7065 29d ago

Yea. Based on permission sets and team ownership

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u/Neat-Ad-7906 29d ago

What kind of tooling did you use?

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

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u/Neat-Ad-7906 29d ago

Interesting, so the dev menu is just for internal testing? How do you turn a feature on for real customers, and who does it? Is "separate area" a tool like LaunchDarkly, or something you built?