zulgan

  Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open
  the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s
  case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see
  the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or
  the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the
  story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet
  streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.

  In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple
  errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international
  affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more
  accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the
  page, and forget what you know.

* cant find people for it and if you do they come because of the tech not because of the real world problems we are trying to solve.

* the no types thing makes people write tests that test for typos and make refactoring incredibly difficult because you have to fix gazillion pattern matching tests

* the tooling is just horrible, cant jump, because of pattern matching that makes it much more annoying

* phoenix was complete misfit for us as well, so i ended up hating it for no reason

so because of no-tooling and on-refactoring, accidental complexity only grows, and we ended up with much more fragile system with infinite failure domain.