Look, I sympathize, cool nerd shit rocks and in the right places can be great. Often management doesn't make good choices about tech debt and optimization, too.

Look, I sympathize, cool nerd shit rocks and in the right places can be great. Often management doesn't make good choices about tech debt and optimization, too. That said, if engineers are lost in the weeds gold plating far more than is necessary or fighting unsuited tooling, either case is a management failure. I just don't think twitter from inception to elon, as a now complete product story, is the great success that this thread is trying to paint it as. In the race, you don't get prizes for all the cool shit you do, you win or you fail, and twitter didn't win as it didn't make money and now maybe never will. Worse still, all this cool shit is cool proprietary shit so the best all these cool twitter engineers can do is tell me about it, so, fuck that.