When you’re trying to balance a bad budget, you can’t dismiss many of the cost centers and still succeed.

You can prioritize, but that makes the rest a matter of “when” not if.

It can be hard to tell from the outside if someone is avoiding a problem because they don’t want to solve it, or because they are hoping for a more inspired solution. Tackling a problem when all the options are bad may block another alternative when it does finally surface. I’d lump this in with irreversible decisions and the advice to delay them to the last responsible moment.

Who know what internal plumbing has to be moved around to make the compiler more incremental, parallel, or both.