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This seems to have been my experience and interpretation as well. A bug is not a mistake in coding, but a mistake in selecting core architecture, 3rd party libraries, etc.

Making a mistake picking the wrong storage engine can cause major problems if you find it can't scale to your load after 12 months of development. That's a ton of code to change if you're switching from MySQL to Redis (for a crazy example).

Make a mistake in copy or layout, and that's usually much easier to change.



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