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A healthy diet of steady underfunding leads to humble, stable systems. We should start worrying when a team is temporarily overfunded, building out complexity i
by fritzo 3y ago
A healthy diet of steady underfunding leads to humble, stable systems. We should start worrying when a team is temporarily overfunded, building out complexity in excess of their long term maintenance capability.
- pstuart 3y agoEmphasis on healthy.
- driscoll42 3y agoIs it healthy? At one point the team was funded enough to create the api, and now it can only maintain it. What if it was never funded enough to create the api in the first place? I realize there's a risk of building complexity, but don't mistake "healthiness" for "inability".
- droopyEyelids 3y agoThis is a really interesting point and I see a lot of truth in it. But the language is imprecise- underfunding would lead to a decaying system.