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It starts mattering more for consumer software when you reach mass scale. Somewhat hard-to-find bugs at the scale of hundreds of millions of users (like a socia
by nikhil896 3y ago
It starts mattering more for consumer software when you reach mass scale. Somewhat hard-to-find bugs at the scale of hundreds of millions of users (like a social media company), turn into bugs faced by hundreds of thousands of users.
But at that scale (in my experience), QA is up front and center and is typically a core pillar of engineering orgs.
- aidenn0 3y ago> It starts mattering more for consumer software when you reach mass scale. Somewhat hard-to-find bugs at the scale of hundreds of millions of users (like a social media company), turn into bugs faced by hundreds of thousands of users. From a cynical point of view, if those hundreds of thousands of users will use your product despite the bugs, does it matter?
- mdaniel 3y agoPeople are only as loyal as their opportunities; if the competition is mostly the same as your product but has either fewer bugs or bugs in a less painful flow, buh-bye I'm super cognizant that the cited example of "social media company" is its own special ball of wax, due to the network effect, and I wish to holy hell I knew how to fix that bug :-)