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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

The choice is: do I get more clicks with this widget, or with *something else I chose not to build and test*? If your only way of testing is by building, you can never actually make this choice because you can't explore alternatives cheaply or quickly enough.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

And clicks are a relatively easy metric that's easy to track. More clicks on more expensive things = more better. When it comes to more complex domains, you cannot even know what "good" is because there's no manual telling you how many hit points your problem domain has.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

In a game, choices are always made on a known time horizon. I will build differently for a one-shot vs an ongoing adventure. A lot of newbie players will *not* - they will pick whatever looks cool now, and 5 levels later they get eaten by ogres. A lot of software development teams do this too.

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