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by adrianratnapala 3238 days ago
I approve of this, but I come at it from an I-just-want-to-be-an-engineer point of view.

When looking for velocity, the first thing to optimise is the feature list. Too often the idea of doing something useful quick and dirty devolves into writing bad code that looks like it covers a feature set until you scratch the surface and find the whole thing is made of bugs.

But if you reduce the feature set (that's the first kind of dirty) then you can build a system that really does what it says on the tin. And the second kind of dirty (code), deosn't matter so much, because in a smaller system the total technical debt is less.