Ship fast without shipping debt
Speed and quality aren't opposites — they're both downstream of the same handful of habits.
IgorSplendor teamMar 2, 20261 min readSpeed and quality aren’t opposites — they’re both downstream of the same handful of habits.
Where debt actually comes from
Debt rarely comes from moving fast. It comes from moving fast without a feedback loop.
Habits that hold up
- Small PRs, often. Reviewed within the day.
- One way to deploy. Documented.
- Logs you’d be willing to read on a Saturday.
What we automate first
Anything that punishes you for trying. Tests, formatters, type checks — the cheap kind, not the elaborate kind.
If shipping is scary, you’ll ship less. The fix is to make shipping boring.
Saying no to scope
Key takeaways
- Optimize for short feedback loops, not large batches.
- Automate the boring half; humans get the interesting half.
- Make rollback the default option, not a heroic exception.
