Comment by abustamam

> Developers should work by wasting lots of time making the wrong thing?

Yes? I can't even count how many times I worked on something my company deemed was valuable only for it to be deprecated or thrown away soon after. Or, how many times I solved a problem but apparently misunderstood the specs slightly and had to redo it. Or how many times we've had to refactor our code because scope increased. In fact, the very existence of the concepts of refactoring and tech debt proves that devs often spend a lot of time making the "wrong" thing.

Is it a waste? No, it solved the problem as understood at the time. And we learned stuff along the way.