linkbait garbage... you can write good code without wasting a bunch of time. Having worked for companies that have products that were started out the way this guy describes, I can attest that no one should ever build software that way, at one point he seems to be suggesting writing procedural code rather than "bothering" with making it object-oriented from the beginning. A good developer can write code can walk the line between wasting too much time initially and writing clean, object-oriented code that will be extendable later on. Inversion of control and programming against Interfaces also can help with this, cutting corners from the beginning is just going to cause a headache later.