What Nickey Skarstad thinks about software quality
Product leader: director of product at Etsy, product lead at Shopify and at Airbnb (Experiences), VP of Product at The Wing, and a director of product at Duolingo; writes the newsletter Dear Builders.
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1 dated position, 2025, in their own words. Our reading of what Nickey Skarstad has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsEvery time you tightly couple your system to a specific model's patterns, you're accumulating technical debt that will cost you later. Don’t optimize dev speed at the expense of operational flexibility.