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Discussion on: How Architecture Improved My Coding Skills

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zchtodd

Great article, I enjoyed reading it!

I feel like balancing upfront planning vs the cost of refactoring later because of overlooked needs is one of the harder things about software. Identifying those things that would be hard to bolt on later seems like an important consideration.

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Eric Horodyski

It definitely is, but it's a skill that constantly gets exercised as a developer. You get better at it with time, learn how to gain time by overscoping other areas and learn where you can cut time and budget from others.

IMO, the majority of software is learning to engineer people less than engineering code