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It’s fine to do that if you’re pre-customer and you’re just dabbling with a new idea. Once you are ready to go public though you need to be stable and secure. The big problem is when people try to apply the same development philosophy between established software and pre-alpha software.
I agree. It heavily depends on the "things" you're breaking
If it's prod, that's bad
If it's your "fuck-around" branch, go for it
Is that really true though? If you have a product people actually want, they'll use it regardless of bugs
That won't be true once your competition catches up to you and your bug-riddled product is pissing off customers, pushing them towards your competitors.
I think move fast and break things is more what you do before you get any real competition, or to get better than the competition in some areas by taking shortcuts in others.
You stop doing this when you're the big dog. Then you embrace the image of reliability and stability.
That’s sadly the opinion of a lot of tech companies.