[drTobiasFunke]

This is so accurate. I am a fairly senior individual contributor and its been more than a year since I saw a good design doc or quality design discussion. Before you can even question the design, someone has generated a 50k line prototype and already made up their mind because of all the “you’re absolutely right..” and “X is exactly what you need..” from AI.

[skydhash]

This very much. First thing built is what get approved. Even if it will generate 10x the workload down the line, because today's quality bar is very much demo level.

And then you get paged at 2am because prod is down and the support channel is more active than the team's one.

[raverbashing]

"Talk is cheap, show me the code"

A working prototype beats endless discussions over paper

[dns_snek]

Talk is cheap, that's why you do it before sinking months of man-effort into building a turd.

[drTobiasFunke]

This. Exactly this. Most ideas are bad ideas. Now noone can stop all of them from being sent to prod for everyone to deal with.

[parpfish]

A working prototype like that is good if the debate is “is this possible?”, the problem above is more for problems where it’s possible and we’re arguing which path to take