Talking with long-time Twitter engineers, they told me the site has a complex architecture for a very good reason. It was built to allow for safe and fast tweaking of any part of Twitter, making it easy for developers to iterate.
Well Twitter did anything but rapidly tweak stuff. Let's be honest out of the major tech companies they seemed the most clueless and slow.
The only major update was a messy UI redesign which made everything much worse.
I think the reason a bunch of them got fired because they had created this complex mess without proper reasons.
I think the reason a bunch of them got fired because they had created this complex mess without proper reasons.
They got fired because costs needed to decrease immediately. It’s hard to attribute these firings to poor performance when the company is in a giant financial hole of Musk’s own creation.
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Well Twitter did anything but rapidly tweak stuff. Let's be honest out of the major tech companies they seemed the most clueless and slow.
The only major update was a messy UI redesign which made everything much worse.
I think the reason a bunch of them got fired because they had created this complex mess without proper reasons.
They got fired because costs needed to decrease immediately. It’s hard to attribute these firings to poor performance when the company is in a giant financial hole of Musk’s own creation.
Yeah it’s a bit of an odd claim, how does more complex architecture allow for easier iteration?
All common sense would suggest that the average developer, who doesn’t quite get how everything works, will become more afraid of iterating quickly.