Throw away your first draft of your code

Re:Throw away your first draft of your code by jstarfish on Friday August 04, 2023 @03:26PM (#37004666)

Sabotage your prototypes then. Have it reset its state every 5 minutes or deliberately leak memory.

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Re:Throw away your first draft of your code by gjvc on Friday August 04, 2023 @03:51PM (#37004981)

Sneaky move.... but then, in the eyes of some people, you might well appear not competent to put together a working system, so make sure you know your audience.

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Re:Throw away your first draft of your code by sodapopcan on Friday August 04, 2023 @04:53PM (#37005741)

Ya, this basically.

It helps if you have tests because when prototyping, you can write things in a way which break tests and ideally break other features. It works enough that you can validate the one idea. That way it will never pass CI.

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Re:Throw away your first draft of your code by hyperthesis on Saturday August 05, 2023 @05:17AM (#37010351)

They are cunning. You cannot sabotage it enough to fool them.

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