Yeah, it’s often treated as a binary proposition, when in reality it’s about the right tradeoffs just like anything else. One problem in SV culture is tenures

Yeah, it’s often treated as a binary proposition, when in reality it’s about the right tradeoffs just like anything else. One problem in SV culture is tenures are too short and there is too much boom/bust with rapid hiring and layoffs. When you actually stick around to see long-term impact of technical decisions you start to develop a sense for which things matter and where it makes sense to cut corners versus where you are painting yourself into one.