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Why you shouldn’t move fast and break things

It’s an oft-repeated motto within the industry – but a severely limited way to build good software.
October 07, 2024

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes

For more than a decade now, a phrase coined by Mark Zuckerberg has helped shape not only the direction of his company, Meta, but the wider tech sector.

“Move fast and break things” was one of the five values Zuckerberg believed embodied “the hacker way”, in a 2012 letter he wrote to be shared with potential investors into his company.

“Moving fast enables us to build more things and learn faster. However, as most companies grow, they slow down too much because they’re more afraid of making mistakes than they are of losing opportunities by moving too slowly,” he wrote. “We

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