Shipping Culture Is Hurting Us 11 years ago
All things in moderation..
To me, "ship it" as a philosophy means the most important thing we do as developers is deliver working code to customers.
On my team, when we encounter a concept that is just too complicated to ship right away, we try to branch-by-abstraction and keep shipping changes, even if the feature isn't "ready" yet.
To me, the marginal returns on trying to be right diminish more rapidly than the returns on making it easy to fix to stuff when I'm wrong. Maybe I'm just not as smart as everyone else here, but it seems to work.