Deleting the product: how sidebar bloat reveals dysfunctional team OKR culture
RachelVT42 · x · 2026-10-03
Engineer poteto argues you can diagnose a dysfunctional team culture from app layout alone: every sidebar feature has a PM accountable to OKRs, and when performance metrics drive rewards, features only get added—never removed—because deletion feels like status loss. He warns this worsens in the agentic era. The reposter adds that Pareto-style streamlining, less is more, is the answer.
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