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by soup10 2497 days ago
>The better your engineers, the bigger your system can get before it collapses under its own weight. This is why the most successful tech companies insist on the best talent despite their massive size.

Translation: the successful tech companies have so much poorly documented legacy enterprise spaghetti code and tooling that they need the best talent they can get just to make sense of it and maintain it

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Alternate translation: Bad devs are worse than no devs and all your competent devs will spend most of their time dealing with the former's crappy code until they quit. (my code is of course perfect and free of all technical debt)