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"Move fast and break things" is fine if you're a social networking site and breaking things means people can't get their racist memes or browse marketplace for twenty minutes until you push a change.

It's less fine if the things you're breaking are your core operating systems and the office suite that makes you most of your money and it takes you months to get the relevant teams aligned to push out a fix for the bad idea your execs pushed.



This is a problem at a wide array of tech companies. Everyone wants to Meta, everyone wants to be Google.

Guys, we're building B2B enterprise software. The most important things our clients care about is this hunk of junk working. Changing it is probably bad, actually, because the users are using it 8 hours a day and they don't want to deal with annoying popups about new features and UI churn for the sake of churn.


It should be noted that the things you are supposed to be allowed to break are YOUR things. When you start breaking MY things then we're going to have a real problem.




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