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by elcdodedocle 1787 days ago
TL;DR: (Without providing any hard data to back it up)

- Design bugs are (more) expensive to fix after implementation.

(I really don't want to be an asshole here. The piece is well written. Particularly the part where it criticizes how a lot of CS research is done nowadays. But so many words for such a remarkably obvious platitude!)