Yeah. I never understood where people are coming with “you need guardrails, extensive architecture docs, coding rules,…”. For every software and features I wrote, I already have a good idea of the objectives before I even start to code. I do the specific part with code, going back to the whiteboard when I need to think.

It’s an iterative process, not a linear one. And the only hige commits are the scaffolding and the refactorings. It’s more like sculpture than 3d printing, a perpetual refinement of the code instead of adding huge lines of code.

This is the reason I switched to Vim, then Emacs. They allow for fast navigation, and faster editing. And so easy to add your own tool as the code is a repetitive structure. The rare cases I needed to add 10s of lines of code is with a code generator, or copy-pasting from some other file.