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		th3byrdm4n on Aug 13, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Should we bring software dev in-house? It was brutal, but the mentality was - it's brutal now but you have the power to fix it, so engineering hours went into fixing broken windows. That adopted mentality pays off tech debt fast.

t-writescode on Aug 14, 2024 [–]

Sure; but eventually you've got a bus number problem and a "I want to be able to take a vacation and I want my coworkers to be able to take a vacation" problem, and that requires more people.

At least that's how I feel about team sizes.

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