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yc-kralntoday at 8:06 AM2 repliesview on HN

> Working software over comprehensive documentation

this is 100% backwards for anything safety-critical or that needs to be maintained past a butterfly's lifetime. this is what encourages yolo-driven-development instead of considering what actually should be done, and this is why agile or Agile or whatever formalization or bastardization of it can not be considered software engineering, but merely code monkeying.


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phbatoday at 9:08 AM

Yeah, I don't understand why it has to be agile XOR waterfall. Agile development simply doesn't work in projects that have so many externally imposed constraints that there is barely any flexibility left.

qwertytyyuutoday at 8:57 AM

If it’s good enough for a space program it’s good enough for pretty much anything