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forgive the nitpicking but "second system syndrome" usually means that re-architecting goes wrong because of bloat[0].

This is the opposite case, when lessons learned in the first write are actually useful for a second rewrite.

I think the commonly associated soundbite is "build one to throw away."

[0] https://wiki.c2.com/?SecondSystemEffect




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