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Build Wide, Ship Narrow

by Bruno Quaresma adapt.com published 2026-08-06

Good engineers plan before they build. The workflow I grew up seeing: write an RFC describing the feature, split it into smaller issues, then build them, each issue often blocking the next. The structure of the work was locked in before a single line of code existed.

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