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Nice article...

Bloat is not "since generative AI coding" new. We always had it. As the author says:

> “It does sound like Facebook’s ‘move fast and break things,’ which didn’t age well either.”

Which indeed did not age well, but it did help the company to grow to a certain point at which it is now a staple in our lives (and can do super expensive BS experiments like "Metaverse" and still show profits).

This may be what Tan does as well: first profitable, then correct.

This is an approach, which may work for some, it may also allow some companies to become irrelevant (like: once the bloat-app is profitable, a clone-app emerges that is bloat-free and overtakes the bloat-app in every dimension, while the bloat-app is figuring out how to scale up with a shitty db schema).