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Not true. Kent Back’s 3X is a much better take, test and good practices for what is high risk and hard to change, move fast for most of it on the rest to try to find that black swan as soon as possible.

Yes, I do feel this time is different and that I am a top-notch coder (I feel more comfortable sounding like a jerk when on hackernews), 1 year later into my startup, codebase is big, but I’m actually coding faster than ever, as foundation code is more and more complete.

One of the huge reasons for it beyond the right architecture is type safety. Someone that was well seasoned in strongly-typed FP but is now pragmatic can move incredibly fast with enormous safety by just adding the most cost-benefit type strictness, and being flexible on where it doesn’t pay off.

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https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/fast-slow-in-3x-explore-ex...

Yes exactly, from the experience he had as Facebook massively scaling up, while all good practices were thrown down the window (except for foundation and critical parts) and extreme go horse php being written as fast as possible, until it was too big and a migration was needed

I had the exact same experience at Booking, but with terrible Perl instead of php, still, built massively successful business until one day the movement to better practices becomes inevitable

The opposite of what uncle bob says

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Erm, he wrote the article with “you” to invoke the feeling of the reader thinking about their own use case, which I did

Different because I ran without good practices before, got more and more messed up over time, grinded to a halt, and it was all terrible. Then worked for 10 years, doing TDD for most of it, as well as pairing and other good practices, everything was better, started condemning people that don’t do it similar to uncle bob. Kept moving forward, entered an environment where everything was “wrong” but still somehow worked very well. Now I’m mature enough that I can have both: skip “good practices” and still not break things

Finally, yes of course the types fucking matter

Can you please not post like this? We're trying for curious, respectful conversation here—not people putting each other down or ridiculing others.

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