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The common sense unit of work
Srihari Srirama...
We’d build state machines and workflows around it, carrying it from specification to deployment through activities performed by product managers, engineers, designers, and others. What value it provides, how to verify it How it needs to be implemented Missing pieces of context that came together after conversations Unknowns that were resolved or unresolved Who worked on it, what issues they ran into What bugs came up in testing, and QA before release The incidental complexity of getting our primary real world abstractions wrong, grows exponentially with each layer of software built over it, until the whole system is slow, sludgy slop that’s difficult to work with.
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