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Premature optimization: still the root of all evil.

One of the better takeaways from the article was the notion that being data-driven means you're aiming for average, and you might not even hit it. Aim for the moon, you might only achieve orbit instead.

I watched a CEO make arbitrary layoff decisions based on what the numbers said should be the size of a development organization and the the ratio of developers to QA. The actual software being built was irrelevant to his figures. He used numbers to justify grinding the dev organization into the ground.