simpleProMan123

I don't mean this as a response to you personally, but instead to everyone who works this way.

We've been in this situation lots of times, where we'll write some code, then finish the solution after a few days or a week, then look at it a month later and say "Wow, this is really not a good way of doing it," only to spend another few days or weeks rewriting it.

The idea of spending 10 minutes drafting a solution, throwing it out, spending another 10 minutes on diagrams and guesses, throwing it out, typically gets met with "Just _code_ damnit," but, diagramming could compress months of rework into minutes.

Every time I've found myself needing to ask, or had teammates who needed to ask the question "Is my job safe beyond the next month?" the answer has been "no."