Most expensive rewrites don't come from bad code -- they come from decisions that were never made explicit until the system was already built around an assumption that turned out to be wrong.
Before any interface is designed, we define the data model, the API contracts between services, the security boundaries, and where the system will actually run. This takes longer at the start of a project and saves significantly more time later.
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