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Discussion on: Do you have any bad “sunk cost fallacy” stories?

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Anna Simoroshka

This was hard to come by because my brain wants me to reap the rewards of prior labor, even if less than ideal.
The reward is usually your new level of skills and understanding, which is exactly what will let you write better code.

But, in my experience, it is better not to do complete rewrites, it always takes at least 4 times longer than you hope. Refactoring and extending - yes. Rewrites are good in the first stages of a project when you do MVP and prototypes and figure things out.