Grady Booch to Addy Osmani: fixing quality means deleting more code than you add
Grady_Booch · x · 2026-09-15
Addy Osmani explained that his team tracks shipped features but much of its work is fixing paper cuts and quality, and feature count doesn't equal value. Grady Booch replied that genuinely fixing quality means throwing away more code than you add.
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