parts of the article are spot on. after the magic has worn off i find it's best to literally treat it like another person. would you blindly merge code from s

parts of the article are spot on. after the magic has worn off i find it's best to literally treat it like another person. would you blindly merge code from someone else or huge swaths of features? no. i have to review every single piece of code, because later on when there's a bug or new feature you have to have that understanding. another huge thing for me has been to scaffold a complex feature just to see what it would do. just start out with literal garbage and an idea and as long as it works you can start to see if something is going to pan out or not. then tear it down and do it again with those new assumptions you learned. keep doing it until you have a clear direction. or sometimes my brain just needs to take a break and i'll work on boilerplate stuff that i've been meaning to do or small refactors.