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Jon Randy 🎖️ • Edited

Plan before you code

Yes and no

Very rough high-level breakdown, yes. Detailed task breakdown, no. Most of the time things will not turn out as your breakdown predicts. Doing such a breakdown will usually make the task take longer overall as you waste time on a plan you end up diverging from and throwing out.

This realisation comes from 25+ years of development experience