I was discussing this article with another ex-Twitter employee yesterday. I quit in the middle of this monorepo clusterfuck, and my views are very different - I

I was discussing this article with another ex-Twitter employee yesterday. I quit in the middle of this monorepo clusterfuck, and my views are very different - I believe most of what happened was a Battle of the Egos. I can name names but its not worth the trouble, Twitter was a generous employer etc. He remembers most of this as a Battle of the Languages ie. Scala vs Java vs Ruby thing. Seibel has this 3rd version, having joined much later in 2013. The list of ex-Twitter engineers is probably in the thousands at this point, so you are going to hear a whole different set of narratives.Twitter is Roshomon 2.0. One thing is certain. The lack of profitability is very much due to throwing lots of cash at lots of engineers who wrote and rewrote the same bits until kingdom come, driving each other and the market nuts as to what all the fuss was about.