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Software development topics I've changed my mind on

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873 points belter | 1 comments | 05 Feb 25 09:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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ZaoLahma ◴[05 Feb 25 12:38 UTC] No.42947654[source]▶
> Most programming should be done long before a single line of code is written

Nah.

I (16+ years developer) prefer to iteratively go between coding and designing. It happens way too often that when you're coding, you stumble across something that makes you go "oh f me, that would NEVER work", which forces you to approach a problem entirely differently.

Quite often you also have eureka moments with better solutions that just would not have happened unless you had code in front of you, which again makes you approach the problem entirely differently.

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1. mamcx ◴[05 Feb 25 15:05 UTC] No.42949429[source]▶
What I think is a better way to say this is that you need a `design` phase before actually writing the first `real` implementation code.

Something I do a lot, and even more with the LLMS, is that I make `scratch` projects where I sketch code over and over (and maybe make mockups in Keynote or similar, make some notes, etc), then write from scratch again in the real codebase.