There is a moment most developers know well. You are three weeks into a project, things were moving fast, and then something shifts. A feature that should take an afternoon starts pulling threads. One change breaks two other things. The data model that made sense at the start is now duct-taped together with workarounds. Instead of building, you are patching. It usually traces back to the same place: the project started at the cursor, not the whiteboard. And that is precisely where architecture-first development offers a fundamentally better approach. The rush to…
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