[bryanrasmussen]

> How many projects never even got to a viable prototype because devs decided to rewrite everything in flavour-of-the-month every 3 week

this part sounds pretty fanciful, my experience is at the worst six months for new library in your chosen language, and that you can generally talk them out of; 1-2 years rewrite fever in some is almost overwhelming.

on edit: in short I think even the least self-aware dev is not going to do rewrite cool new tech every 3 week, maybe once but not twice. So sounds a bit hyperbolical.

[glutamate]

I admit it was an exaggeration for comic relief, but many projects have definitely not gotten to working prototype because devs wanted to use something fancy