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Sort of, but sometimes I feel like TDD approaches the forest by making each tree first one by one. I really like writing a usage README first, since I don’t ha
by stouset 2y ago
Sort of, but sometimes I feel like TDD approaches the forest by making each tree first one by one.
I really like writing a usage README first, since I don’t have to make anything work along any axis yet but I can play freely with the shape of things, figure out how to make the whole thing consistent, and experiment on what boundaries it makes sense to break components apart so they can be mixed and matched.
This does require a decent amount of engineering experience to both figure out what your consumers really need and also to design something that is actually implementable.
- hinkley 2y agoWe are doing this weird zigzag of a gradient descent because we know that things are bad, but we don’t know exactly how they are bad. We don’t know exactly which direction is “downhill” and which is “uphill”, so we turn around and head somewhere in a 120° code of where we think is the opposite direction. But it’s not the right thing, it just has some of the opposite qualities of the wrong thing. It’s better than post-disaster politics, where “something must be done, this is something, so we shall do it” but it has an aftertaste of that same sentiment, if that makes sense.