This trite argument made some sense when there were 8000 engineers, but when the 4th most popular social media platform has only 550 engineers working on it, you don’t need to dig deep to figure out how so many engineers are needed.
Even the famously nimble WhatsApp which has fewer features and complexity needs this order of magnitude engineers so why would you expect Twitter to be leaner?
Even the famously nimble WhatsApp which has fewer features and complexity needs this order of magnitude engineers so why would you expect Twitter to be leaner?