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The Bitter Lesson: Product version

Aparna Chennapragada · 7 Sept 2025

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  1. Product teams naturally jump to solve user problems with more scaffolding: extra flows, carefully crafted UIs, polished controls. The problem is that it works once but it doesn’t improve with use.

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