85% of all developer time must be spent on business specific logic Yeah. Come back in two or three years when your application's code has degenerated into an u

85% of all developer time must be spent on business specific logic Yeah. Come back in two or three years when your application's code has degenerated into an unmaintainable mess, and adding new business logic is taking four times as long as it needs to because no one sat down are rearchitected the software to meet new needs. I've experienced two jobs where this, in effect, was exactly what happened. In both firms, previous management used short term contractors to get a "lean" proof-of-concept out the door. In both cases customers loved the product and started asking for more features. And, finally, in both cases by the time I was hired (at +3 years in one company and at +5 years at another) the product had grown so bloated and so unwieldy, management had brought development in-house and was embarking on a multi-year project to clean up and rearchitect the code so that it would accommodate new feature requests from customers. If these two companies had paid more attention to the architecture of their code, then a lot of pain could have been avoided farther down the line. This strategy is great if you're building a pump-and-dump startup (like Instagram, or Tumblr). But for an ongoing sustainable business? It's a recipe for disaster.