What Thuan Pham thinks about software quality

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Uber's first Chief Technology Officer, from 2013 to 2020; later CTO of Coupang and of Faire.

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1. 1 Apr 2026

   Our readingRepeated rewrites are the correct answer under fast growth, because a system specified to scale forever would take so long to build that the company would die before it shipped.

   Their wordsLet's say if my requirement for the engineer was build a system that will scale infinitely to the test of time, it might take a year. We never get there. We'll die before then.

   ↗Scaling Uber with Thuan Pham (Uber's first CTO)youtube.com 8th of 24 in this recording