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gzreadtoday at 10:46 AM1 replyview on HN

What were you doing before, if not making resilient software?

I find that scalability is usually overblown because computers are fast now, which is not to say you shouldn't make it run fast on one computer.


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steve_adams_86today at 8:26 PM

I had to strike more of a balance between moving quickly and focusing strictly on resilience. The difference moving forward would be that the features already exist, and my job will increasingly be focused on ensuring they work properly, and the underlying systems supporting features are consistent, cohesive, and not duct taped together like an LLM built it.

It reminds me a lot of my early career spent remediating offshored PHP applications.