> Writing a complex architecture without prototyping. Often your prototype will tell you what you need. One million times yes. In my experience using a protot

> Writing a complex architecture without prototyping. Often your prototype will tell you what you need. One million times yes. In my experience using a prototype as an input to a specification works much better than the other way around. > Complex, hard to mentally map, build systems (e.g. CMake). Also yes. It's almost to the point where one has to understand every detail of how CMake works to get it to do one (1) specific thing you need in your build process.