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Drawn from what Nelson Elhage said
ideas vs execution Whether the idea or the execution behind it is what actually decides an outcome, and who deserves the credit.
The best tooling in the world will struggle to make up for "regularly losing a day debugging your environment," and so getting that aspect right can easily outweigh almost any other decisions you make.
Where this was said
↗Stripe's monorepo developer environmentblog.nelhage.com
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