Conversation

What I’m trying to say here is that we really overcomplicated the (software) development process. The good intention there was that only if we’ve caught issues earlier we could somehow lower the costs. Willfully ignoring the extra costs of the extra steps, because that’s the best practice now.
I’d love things to get simpler, easier, truly iterative.

One thing that is amazing about spotting patterns (another topic for another time) is that once you lean into it, your codebase gets small. Extremely small. Basically just an Excel spreadsheet with extra bells&whistles.
Thinking that you need big one usually means that you did not identify the patterns or don’t understand the data (yet another topic). Or both.