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Paul Graham

Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do.

Paul Graham

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Paul Graham warns that focusing too soon on how a program should work can cause problems just like trying to make it run faster before it's ready. He suggests that rushing the planning phase can limit flexibility and lead to poor decisions later on.

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