Maintainable
Nathan Ladd: Relentless Improvement and the Cost of Neglect
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Episode Notes
The discussion moves into how standards evolve beyond tools, the trade-offs of monocultures vs. consensus-driven teams, and why ownership matters when the original authors move on. Nathan also unpacks the cost of neglect, describing defects as anything that slows developers down—not just issues that impact end users.
Later in the conversation, Nathan recounts a migration from a…