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Counter argument to living software is that it treats "never done" products as a virtue instead of a failure of design.

Here's a thread where the person replying to me makes this case: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45455963



I love it when I have a tool that’s “done” but the software I work on in my career is never, ever done. It’s almost like there’s two different things we call “software”. there are tools like, idk, “curl” where you can use and old version and be happy. and there are interactive organizations in the world, like, eg, Hacker News, which mutates as the community’s needs change


Software for evolving business-needs is the same for me. What's insightful is that we (I) take continuously evolving software as just that: evolving. It's a defacto virtue to continuously tinker.

Doing away with check-ins entirely is the extreme end-game of that pov. I'm in product and every day and every week yes we very much continually change the product!

But I'm growing less convinced that the natural end-state of this methodology produces obviously better results.




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