The tone of the article is way over the top, but I 100% agree with this quote: "[E]xperience has shown repeatedly that good designs arise only from evolutionary

The tone of the article is way over the top, but I 100% agree with this quote: "[E]xperience has shown repeatedly that good designs arise only from evolutionary, exploratory interaction between one (or at most a small handful of) exceptionally able designer(s) and an active user population--and that the first try at a big new idea is always wrong." I agree so much so that the best systems I've built have always been the 2nd revision of a build one to throw it away prototype. That said, I like to surround my code with lots of unit tests to eliminate absolutely stupid bugs.