This is exactly how I see it, and why I’m often willing to pay Fable rates. Yes, I might spend $300 on a feature instead of $20, but it’ll be done in a tenth of my time, thanks to faster iteration in both the planning and post-impl verification / iteration stage. Plus a mistake could easily cause a bug that costs me a customer worth four or five figures of LTV, and the feature might easily add tens of thousands in marginal revenue over the coming years. So really $300 is nothing, it’s barely worth worrying about.

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