--- title: "Make things work, make things right, make things fast" url: https://daily.dev/posts/make-things-work-make-things-right-make-things-fast-ot16nl2vc source_url: https://adayinthelifeof.nl/2026/05/26/work-right-fast type: article source: "A Day in the Life Of" published: 2026-05-26T16:34:21.520Z updated: 2026-05-26T16:34:48.385Z tags: ["agile"] reading_time: 7 upvotes: 1 comments: 1 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Make things work, make things right, make things fast **[A Day in the Life Of](https://daily.dev/sources/adayinthelife)** · 7 min read · 1 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary A defense of the classic 'make it work, make it right, make it fast' development philosophy, arguing against the modern tendency to skip steps or do all three simultaneously. The post breaks down each phase: the first is pure proof-of-concept validation with no concern for quality; the second is refactoring into a maintainable, well-structured design once the solution is proven; the third is targeted performance optimization only when needed. A notable take is that each phase can be its own pull request, enabling focused code review and earlier integration of working code into main, while acknowledging the tradeoffs of that approach. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@hanzo** · 0 upvotes > Good read. You know we've hit peak lunacy when finishing the problem before abstracting it is deemed a radical concept. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Growing Software](https://daily.dev/posts/growing-software-mew6fcra2) · Ruby Flow · 59 upvotes · 4 comments - [Programming principles for self taught front-end developers](https://daily.dev/posts/programming-principles-for-self-taught-front-end-developers-zp5fgxbnt) · Piccalilli · 23 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#agile](https://daily.dev/tags/agile) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/make-things-work-make-things-right-make-things-fast-ot16nl2vc)