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Software Falsehoods: you can build it cheap, fast, and good - pick twoPublished on March 8, 2025 in 10 minutes to read “You can build it cheap, fast, and good - pick two” is how the saying goes, referring to the inherent trade-offs in software development priorities. It makes intuitive sense but utterly fails in real-world applications. Two simple reasons why this correlation does not hold:
Price is its own independent quality determined entirely by the buyer’s and seller’s perception of value. As the Dan Luu article I linked to mentions - it’s fairly difficult even for experts within a given domain to accurately assess the market value of their own services (or someone else’s), hence why price discovery has to be tested continuously1. But let’s take a closer look under the covers at the price vs. quality and price vs. speed relationships. |
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I write about .NET, open source software, the Microsoft ecosystem, my adventures with startups, and outer space.
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