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If quick and dirty gets you 10 shots, while slow and beautiful gets you 1, I’d choose quick & dirty any day.
by rrr_oh_man 3y ago
If quick and dirty gets you 10 shots, while slow and beautiful gets you 1, I’d choose quick & dirty any day.
- rnewme 3y agoThat's not how you build big important, expensive things, though. It all depends on the context.
- doomslice 3y agoDo you know that the big expensive thing is what your customers actually need? Do you actually know what your customers need? That’s basically the only important context. If you can’t deliver that, it doesn’t matter how well thought through, extensible, or scalable it is.
- ericjmorey 3y agoIt seems that the biggest, most important, and most expensive things are built like that.
- philipov 3y agoLike bridges and skyscrapers?
- Dan42 3y agoAn order of magnitude is a bit much. I'd say quick and dirty gets you 3 shots, while slow and beautiful gets you 1. And if you succeed, it means the result is dirty/ugly code that must be maintained forever.
- Jensson 3y agoDoing it many times tend to be much cleaner than trying to get it right the first time. So fast -> clean, slow -> ugly code, as long as you use the speed to redo and clean things up.
- berniedurfee 3y agoExcept the redo and cleanup part never happens. The PoC becomes a pilot becomes production becomes an exit becomes someone else’s problem. That’s the SLDC that has gotten us to a place with endless amounts of terrible software everywhere you look. Though, I’m optimistic that at some point, the software industry will be so saturated, all the products have all the features, and the only place left to differentiate or disrupt will be quality.
- andrewflnr 3y ago10 shots facing the wrong direction still gives 10 guaranteed misses. At least make sure which cardinal direction the target is in.