The "just build it, you can make it better later" cliche

We constantly see different variations of "just build it, you can make it better later" on LinkedIn and other places dedicated to recycling cliches.

Normally, the writer is a CLUMS (short for cliche-loving, unimaginative, mindless soul) who labels the opposite approach as perfectionist and rejects it on that grounds.

In practice, what CLUMS has in mind and rejects is not perfect, but only well-built (perfection goes well beyond their imagination). Of course, CLUMS is not suggesting that sloppy approach to people who create products and services that CLUMS uses. Oh, on the contrary, CLUMS wants those to be very good and polished. What CLUMS says is just a justification for CLUMS' own slopiness in creating products and services. Fortunately, CLUMS is not much into building; otherwise, our world had collapsed by now.

By the way, the "later" in "make it better later" means "never" and the "it" in "build it" only means "software" and the "build it" in the "just build it" phrase means "ask your favorite LLM to take care of it".

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