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I believe that quality becomes impossible as software grows. Here’s a collection of quotes that support my belief. Patrick McKenzie tweeted about the culture of quality at Stripe. Patrick ended with “none of it is sufficient. We are actively dissatisfied with where quality is at the moment”. Benji Taylor of Family and Honk said that “big corporate software seems to be getting buggier each year, while indie software [seems] to be getting smoother and more reliable”. Some notable people replied to Benji’s tweet: “the attention to detail is inversely proportional to the size of the team” (Jordan Singer) “details are best cared for when they can be thought about holistically from a macro point of view. large organizations, by design, don’t allow for that.” (Brandon Jacoby) “craft just becomes more and more expensive the bigger your product/team is” (George Kedenburg III) “I wholeheartedly agree high craft is excruciatingly hard to scale” (Kurt Varner) “craft was impossible to maintain at T

I believe that quality becomes impossible as software grows. Here’s a collection of quotes that support my belief. Patrick McKenzie tweeted about the culture of quality at Stripe. Patrick ended with “none of it is sufficient. We are actively dissatisfied with where quality is at the moment”. Benji Taylor of Family and Honk said that “big corporate software seems to be getting buggier each year, while indie software [seems] to be getting smoother and more reliable”. Some notable people replied to Benji’s tweet: “the attention to detail is inversely proportional to the size of the team” (Jordan