Building systems to support doing X at 10% of the cost is less satisfying than just doing X, because validation of value is 10x farther away
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Before the JavaScript developer glut people on the web used to talk about extracting frameworks rather than designing them up front.
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Saw a strategic review article referenced by on automation. Made same point: always easier to do next thing than automate.
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You bring up the related piece that intermediate validation is important; often achieved by breaking X into small pieces, automating each


