I'm feeling #4 especially, working at a larger tech company
> 4. When it comes to edge cases, understand your tipping point (because they’ll bury you at scale!).
Definitely for smaller startups, edge cases can be a distraction, but at scale, edge cases can blow up in your face. I remember going through product reviews and being frustrated by folks hammering me on edge cases. I realized though, that these experienced folks knew what it meant to get burned by the 1% case at scale. Great that Jonathan Golden caveated this with the scale point.
> 4. When it comes to edge cases, understand your tipping point (because they’ll bury you at scale!).
Definitely for smaller startups, edge cases can be a distraction, but at scale, edge cases can blow up in your face. I remember going through product reviews and being frustrated by folks hammering me on edge cases. I realized though, that these experienced folks knew what it meant to get burned by the 1% case at scale. Great that Jonathan Golden caveated this with the scale point.