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It doesn't make sense to write code with the exact same approach regardless of the circumstances. Depending on the situation, it may be more appropriate to take a more fast and loose approach than a careful and rigorous one.

Scrappy and MacGyver Hats vs. Captains Hat

a real-world illustration of this that jumps to mind is "setting up payment processing for my app"

• common approach: fully wire up stripe webhooks with your backend logic and database, etc.

• scrappy approach: stripe payment alerts me, I go into Rails console and add user record for their email