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How CTOs Use Throwing Away Code to Learn Faster
In this episode of Tech Leadership with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore a counterintuitive CTO practice: deliberately building and then discarding software to learn faster. They look at how a major fintech used a throwaway prototype to validate a risky migration strategy, saving months of rework. The discussion covers the difference between throwaway code and technical debt, how to time-box experiments, and when a 'spike' is the right call. Lucas breaks down the economics of sunk costs and why the best CTOs are comfortable walking away from working code. Luna pushes back with a real-world…
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