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_pdp_today at 11:30 AM1 replyview on HN

Yep.

I would argue that any sufficiently large system reaches a point where more code is in fact the opposite of what it needs.

Nutrition and calories are only useful up-to a point and then we have diminishing and later on negative returns.

Even-tough it is not the best analogy because we are describing two different system, it helps put a mental model around the fact that churning more is often less.

Side Note: A got a feedback from a customer today that while our documentation is complete and very detailed, they find it to be too overwhelming. It turns out having a few bullet points to get the idea across it better than 5 page document. Now it is obvious.


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razodactyltoday at 11:55 AM

Seeing this too. Machines are great at pumping out content.

Tl;dr's, quick references / QuickStarts / cheat sheets and FAQs are also some things they're great at generating.

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