Refactoring is cheap now
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We used to optimize so much of our time around making mistakes in the code and coming up with the right answer first because refactoring was very expensive
Now refactoring is so cheap that rebuilding something five times doesn't cost five times and refactoring things to use it doesn't cost five times it gets faster each time.
Building context around an idea can now involve prototyping in production where you get both the information around how to build something in the wrong way and whether or not it worked.