design process
1 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 11, 2025 by Alex Modon · across every show →
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Dec 11, 2025 negative
Modon: High engineering costs force projects into single-pass local optima
“Because again, such a high marginal cost to engineering, what you end up doing is you only really design something one pass through. There's no sort of iteration. There's no optimization of design. And that leads you to a spot where you kind of make early deci…”