Isaac and Jeffrey explore the pitfalls of rewrites in software development, including the trap of delayed risk, sunk cost fallacy, and human psychology. Learn strategies to avoid costly rewrites and focus on incremental delivery and early feedback.

Isaac and Jeffrey explore the pitfalls of rewrites in software development, including the trap of delayed risk, sunk cost fallacy, and human psychology. Learn strategies to avoid costly rewrites and focus on incremental delivery and early feedback.

Episode 153: The Rewrite Trap & Sunk Cost Fallacy

‘Never Rewrite’ is a mantra of ours in the programming realm. Often times when software developers encounter nightmare codebases, the thought crosses their mind to work towards a rewrite, a port to a new language, or despair that their code is unfixable. 
It’s not unfixable, and we explore how to get started along with an array of other software topics in our eponymous podcast.

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‘Never Rewrite’ is a mantra of ours in the programming realm. Often times when software developers encounter nightmare codebases, the thought crosses their mind to work towards a rewrite, a port to a new language, or despair that their code is unfixable. It’s not unfixable, and we explore how to get started along with an array of other software topics in our eponymous podcast.

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Episode 153: The Rewrite Trap & Sunk Cost Fallacy

Episode 153: The Rewrite Trap & Sunk Cost Fallacy