&gt;  It sounds like you may be at a point in your career where you may be suffering some imposter syndrome when it comes to making the decisions to move the PoC code to something more final.<p>Definitely! I&#x27;m the imposter that imposter syndrome was defined around ;)<p>&gt; That should be your primary goal during this time, is this readable and maintainable?<p>Oh, that&#x27;s an interesting twist. Move the focus away from craftmanship of the present-day to future-proofing. It may be more ugly but if I can fix&#x2F;extend it in 12 months without missing a beat then my job is better done.<p>&gt; I spent the first six weeks so twisted up I&#x27;d go days without a line of code written- luckily there was enough in the way of infrastructure and Ops tasks to give me something to do. I think the stress of it all just kept me from being able to focus like I need to in order to develop.<p>I&#x27;m 31 and that&#x27;s how I&#x27;ve spent a lot of time recently. Especially when not working flat-out on a project to meet a deadline. Give me one of those and I&#x27;m happy: head down, pounding it out.