> What I found is that advocates for these new technologies tended to confuse the productivity benefits of working on a small code base (small N essential complexity due to fewer feature interactions and small N cost for features that scale with size of codebase) with the benefits of the new technology itself — efforts using a new technology inherently start small so the benefits get conflated.
I see this a lot. It's exciting to work on shiny new $x app, and productive, but it's most likely productive because it's new, not because it's $x. The old code base has accumulated complexity that the new one doesn't have.
I see this a lot. It's exciting to work on shiny new $x app, and productive, but it's most likely productive because it's new, not because it's $x. The old code base has accumulated complexity that the new one doesn't have.