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Splitting engineering teams into defense and offense


How a small team manages to build and maintain a complex product.

Large software teams use it for things like AI-powered code reviews and diagnosing root causes for outages. The core functionality may remain largely intact but the periphery is often buggy, something we expect will improve only as our engineering headcount catches up to our product scope. Not only am I not a professional engineering manager, this is also a very specific and usually ephemeral situation - a small team running a disproportionately fast growing product in a hyper-competitive and fast-evolving space.

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