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by corytheboyd 1952 days ago
Controversial as it may be I completely agree. Maybe I’m just not on the same god tier level as the rest of you but I have done the days/weeks of planning carefully without touching anything close to code “because you’re not supposed to” and there still ends up being things we didn’t think through that become obvious at implementation time. I agree that coding and planning don’t have to be mutually exclusive
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I think spending days on planning is really valuable. Spending weeks is counterproductive in most cases.
Figuring out exactly what code to write is not the goal. Figuring out approximately what code not to write is.