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I have found that too much coupling between product requirements and the architecture can be detrimental. It's often the reason why people tend do too much upfront work, but also slows down the evolution of the feature.

So I don't really want to know the future requirements, or refactor on the 2nd pass to "match".

If some feature needs too many modifications or special cases in the current architecture, it's a round peg in a round hole. I prefer to have those places be a bit more "painful" in the code. The code doesn't have to be bad per se, but it should be clear that something different and not traditional is happening there.



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