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"The company formalized the idea that defects could be fixed through human intervention on live production systems" (From Part 5).

Uh...yeah. I think we all realized that years ago.



Great but then you tie your growth to the support people headcount. Normally you would see enormous costs upfront for R&D and bringing the thing up, then marginal costs when adding capacity (the hardware, mostly)—if capacity is proportional to the number of humans looking after the system, you will soon hit a limit, and the cost won’t look good either.




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