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Our reading
Reliable, stable developer tooling matters more than which specific technical choices a team makes
Their wordsThe 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.
Their wordsIn a rapidly growing organization, it's much more important to have a developer environment that "just works" out of the gate, with minimal setup pain for new engineers.
Our reading
Per-engineer productivity inevitably declines somewhat as an organization and its codebase grow
Their wordsIt is almost inevitable that per-engineer productivity drops to some extent as an organization and codebase grows, even though it's also nearly-impossible to quantify that effect.