Finding the balance is one of the most difficult things in software. On the one hand there's YAGNI (You ain't gonna need it) which you described, and on the oth

Finding the balance is one of the most difficult things in software. On the one hand there's YAGNI (You ain't gonna need it) which you described, and on the other end are "hacky" prototypes that take the most direct approach but often ignore edge cases and are hard to build upon.