This article resonated with me. Note that currently I don't work in a team development environment. There are 3 of us and we each have our own respective tech

This article resonated with me. Note that currently I don't work in a team development environment. There are 3 of us and we each have our own respective technologies we develop for or with. One of my responsibilities is some Java backend code. I'm 80% of the way done developing a complex routing system that runs under apache camel. I'm maybe 150 hours into the development. As it relates to this article, even when developing a new system I find I have to keep challenging my original assumptions and refactor out the complexity where I can as I go. Its like razing a child and impacting new life rules each few months. Yesterday I realized the customer had provided some requirements that we wrong and now I have to go factor that into the code in the next couple of days. I am so glad that I have unit tests. I will be rewriting several unit tests today and adding more and then write the new requirements into the code base. It feels like when you have a child and wake up in the morning ready to go to work and your child says, Dad take me to the doctor I don't feel so good. All of a sudden your day or next several days are not what you had planned for but still you have to proceed with the new path.