I once made the mistake of buying into a certain library before vetting it. Pretty much a rookie mistake. Now I verify I can do the thing I want to use a parti

I once made the mistake of buying into a certain library before vetting it. Pretty much a rookie mistake. Now I verify I can do the thing I want to use a particular library or tool for, in a separate throwaway minimal verifiable project, before integrating into whatever main thing I need it for. Fail fast in a sense.