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You will have a good understanding of a system which is 20 times smaller in size/features.

For a todo app that is fine. But for most projects your competitor will leave you in the dust with the speed at which they add features.

Same story, 25 years ago:

> But with Lisp our development cycle was so fast that we could sometimes duplicate a new feature within a day or two of a competitor announcing it in a press release. By the time journalists covering the press release got round to calling us, we would have the new feature too.

https://paulgraham.com/avg.html

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What happens when the biggest feature that can be touted is concrete objective metrics about bugs/uptime/quality-stuff? Can't slop your way to having the "crafted with love and care, no bugs in production in the last 2 years" feature.



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