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This is basically the "load up on tech debt early" play. If you grow you (presumably) have money to fix the debt, if you fail (at business) the code debt is zer

• convolvatron 4y ago
  the problem with this play is that the time never really arrives. and bad architecture begets more bad architecture until you're left trying to sell a rewrite, which nobody thinks is a good idea...or sell 1-2 yrs of painstaking incremental rewrite with additional test development. the latter is the only hope, but practically no one is willing to commit to it now when I talk to people about making their product be something that development can be done on again - I try to figure out how serious they are. almost never.