A small startup that invests in some ops talent is going to run rings around a small startup that optimizes for developers. People think that staffing up devs

A small startup that invests in some ops talent is going to run rings around a small startup that optimizes for developers. People think that staffing up devs creates agility and speed, when in reality it just increases product features. Scope creep without someone around to voice the needs of operations is a crazy-efficient generator of technical debt.