"Fix It Later" Has an Expiry Date
Shipping fast and fixing later works while mistakes are cheap. The real skill is noticing the day they stop being cheap, and saying it out loud.
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Shipping fast and fixing later works while mistakes are cheap. The real skill is noticing the day they stop being cheap, and saying it out loud.
Tools can be bought in an afternoon. Judgment still grows slowly, through real work next to someone who already has it.
A good guess always gets the average right and the edges wrong. The people you most need to hear from live at the edges, so ask them.
A few months ago I joined a team where nobody writes code by hand and pull requests have thousands of lines. This is what it did to me, what I learned, and what I think we should change.