[larzang]

Context is incredibly important. The author is writing from the standpoint of a startup trying to fine tune an MVP. Of course it doesn't matter if it lasts if you don't know what you're building and rewriting everything isn't hard.

Code-first matters a lot when you're trying to make a 15 year old cobbled-together system last another 15 when you don't have the resources to stop everything for the many engineer-years it would take to do a full rewrite. Anything you touch is going to have to last too and people have to care about adding more technical debt because it's already the 500lb sled they have to drag behind them every single day.

[Ozzie_osman]

That's still not code first. It's always product-first, just with different timelines. If you're working on a system that need to last, you should still optimize for the product, but over a longer time span. The code is just the means to the end.