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Building automation that doesn't address the actual bottleneck to shipping adds noise rather than helping ship.
Drawn from what Thorsten Ball said
Subjectdeveloper tools
Mental modelBottlenecks
What Thorsten Ball actually said
- Thorsten Ball Co-founder of Amp and co-host of the Raising an Agent podcast
If what's holding you back from shipping is, say, getting more customer input, or a brittle release process, or flaky monitoring, or missing tests, then all the bot does is to add noise. It doesn't help you ship.
Where this was said
↗But does it help you ship?thorstenball.com
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