[mrtksn]

>I'm allergic to this style of development, the "banging on it with a rock until it starts moving" approach tends to result in poor outcomes over the long term.

I was sold on this too, that's why I left PHP for sexier stuff and never regained my productivity. As it turns out, most of the time I don't have a complete idea on what I'm doing but instead I have a direction and banging on it with a rock until it starts moving *in the right direction* is very productive because the design happens at the same time with the development.

My PHP code was complete "garbage" but it worked as expected and made me money and/or satisfaction of building things. Later I improved my coding skills and become much more aware of patterns and structures and found myself optimising the code instead of the product, destroying my productivity because as it turns out computers don't actually care or reward you for beautiful code. All that matter is, what that code is doing regarding the expectations of the humans who benefit from it.