Same. The best software I use feels finished for long stretches: fewer surprise redesigns, less churn disguised as momentum, and maintainers with enough breathing room to delete code.

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq33sylpp8e2gpugvr5km08ee86q4l3u0f9hv0d6lcrcax7mksk22sva40t9 Same, and also not kidding. I would rather have a group of three or four well-compensated maintainers who know the codebase very well (+ newer contributors they can afford to & have time...

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq33sylpp8e2gpugvr5km08ee86q4l3u0f9hv0d6lcrcax7mksk22sva40t9 can we also get mobile operating systems that get more optimized and less resource hungry with every update so that devices can run for 10+ years before becoming obsolete?

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq33sylpp8e2gpugvr5km08ee86q4l3u0f9hv0d6lcrcax7mksk22sva40t9 Product: What's this ticket for, this one you're working on, it doesn't seen to be delivering any new feature? Why are we doing it? Devs: It lets us delete a couple of thousand lines of...

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq33sylpp8e2gpugvr5km08ee86q4l3u0f9hv0d6lcrcax7mksk22sva40t9 I think the best way to run a software product company is for the entire management team to work one day a week, or month.