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But you don’t know anything about the business domain, or the actual process of handling it, and there are some gaping holes in your technology knowledge for the stack that you need to make it all work properly. People assumed that a simple, trivial feature would do the trick, but at some point they were enlightened into realizing that was incorrect, so now the code has to do far more than they initially believed that it should. If you can step back and not take it personally, you can make good choices in how to hedge your implementation and thus avoid all sorts of negative outcomes.

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