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Re:Apps Getting Worse by ec109685 on Sunday August 08, 2021 @06:26PM (#28110724)
Good point. There's huge praise when an A/B test shows positive results. "Ship it, we've made the world better!"

So that feedback loop is going to incentivize short term thinking and small changes that might not be beneficial to the whole.

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Re:Apps Getting Worse by oakfr on Monday August 09, 2021 @12:41PM (#28119054)
"it's only +0.65% clicks but zero is outside the confidence interval! let's ship it! ten more like these and we've reached our quarterly target!!"
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