[michalbugno]

I'm far from being a developer perfectionist, I wouldn't spend 10 years in this company if I was one, trust me (btw we fired a lot of them along the way).

The point of the article is not to convince anyone to slow down as much as possible and work on bugs/etc. It's just that at some point (3, 4 years in?) there comes a time that you just have to put more effort into the things I described, otherwise it gets complicated fast.

Obviously there is a tradeoff, my opinion is that this tradeoff wasn't correctly balanced (especially further down).

[sreekotay]

I think the article starts out sounding that way --- but reading all the way through, it's about how to DO BETTER if you want to ship more often (the key take aways from the article being: document, iterate/revisit, and be intentional)

[cnfsd22]

Firing perfectionists is a strange signal. If the customers are sufficiently large, you should do everything possible to please them; beyond revenue, they are themselves an asset (sometimes a company is acquired for this only). In many industries it can take years to establish yourself as an approved vendor for a large org, and especially to a large enterprise company, this can be worth more than the underlying business. Not suggesting that’s the case for Base, but if you’re not gunning for an IPO, your exit strategy isn’t going to be one that necessarily resonates with a product or eng team.