If a social media platform is running smoothly, but the engineers leave, why can’t a platform continue to run on autopilot?

Question

I guess this is applicable to any social media platform or other similar systems. Is it because there are always bugs to address, so it’s never really running smoothly, or other reasons?

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Answer 1

If you’re referring to Twitter than we don’t know what anyone was doing. Maybe you don’t need a huge bloated team.

Generally speaking, computers need updates to function correctly. If you don’t update the computer, you could face issues. Updating the computer could mean you have to update all your codes.